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renowned, ppl. a.|rɪˈnaʊnd|
Also 5–7 renowmed, etc.
[f. as renown v. + -ed1: cf. renomed.]
Celebrated, famous; covered with renown. a. In predicative use, or following the n. † Also with complement (quot. 1456).
α1375Barbour Bruce ii. 32 In fer landis renownyt wes he. a1400Morte Arth. 2372 The roy ryalle renownde, with his rownde table. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 141 Sa did he his awin service..to be renouned a worthy man of armes. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xlviii. 154 Our the laif thy bewty is renownd. 1570T. Norton tr. Nowel's Catech. (1853) 194 Our prayer is, that the name of God be made renowned and known to mortal men. 1652Milton Sonn. xvi. To Cromwell, Peace hath her victories No less renownd then warr. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. xii. I. 335 Semno, the most renowned of their chiefs, fell alive into the hands of Probus. 1872Yeats Techn. Hist. Comm. 67 He is also renowned as having well understood the system of turning in wood.
β14..Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 46 Famose poetys of antiquite In grece and troy, renowmyd of prudence. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) C iv, There haue bene many famous and renoumed by scripture and lerning. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. x. 3 An auncient house..Renowmd throughout the world for sacred lore. 1621Ainsworth Annot. Pentat. (1639) Numbers 6 The called or, the renowmed:..such as were men of renowne for age and wisdom.
b. In attributive use.
α1417Ld. Furnyval in Ellis Orig. Let. Ser. ii. I. 55 The gracious prosperitie and noble health of your renowned person. 1508Dunbar Ball. Ld. B. Stewart 1 Renownit, ryall, right reuerend and serene Lord. 1573L. Lloyd Marrow of Hist. (1653) 219 The renownedst Oratours in all the world. 1630–1Milton Arcades 29 That renowned flood, so often sung, Divine Alpheus. 1818Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 164 The renowned wisdom of your Honourable House. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. iv. 33 The Lake of Geneva.., this renowned inland sea.
β1470–85Malory Arthur viii. iv. 278 One of the famosest and renoumed knyghtes of the world. 1544Leland N.Y. Gift in Itin. (1768) I. p. xxiii, The old Glory of your renowmid Britaine. 1638R. Brathwait Barnabees Jrnl. iii. (1818) 83 Not th' Ephesian Diana Is of more renoumed fam-a.
Hence reˈnownedly adv., reˈnownedness.
1590P. Barrough Meth. Physick viii. (1639) 416 To increase and preserve the worthinesse and renownednesse of their good name. 1611Cotgr., Glorieusement,..renowmedly. 1659Bp. Walton Consid. Considered 180 For the honour he bears to the renownedly learned publisher. |