renewaln.

Brit.

/rᵻˈnjuːəl/, U.S.

/rəˈn(j)uəl/,

/riˈn(j)uəl/

Forms: see renew v.¹ and -al suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: renew v.¹, -al suffix¹.

Etymology: < renew v.¹ + -al suffix¹. Compare earlier renewance n., renewing n., renewment n.

a. The action of renewing or re-establishing something, or the state of being renewed; spec. (a) the action of extending the period of validity of a lease, licence, etc.; (b) the action of resuming an activity after an interruption.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun] > renovation or renewal

renewinga1398

renovation?a1475

renovelty1477

renewc1500

renewance1569

renewment1570

renewal1603

repair1637

apocatastasis1678

rehabilitation1830

redevelopment1882

face-lifting1937

rehabbing1968

evergreening1972

1603 H. Clapham Three Partes Salomon Song of Songs Expounded ii. 9 Time grew (as it were) more big-bellied in the renuall of the promise to Abraham, Dauid and others.

1617 W. Adams Let. 14 Jan. in A. Farrington Eng. Factory in Japan (1991) I. 568 So..[he] sent me to the court to procure..the renewall of the old Emperor's privi'ges.

1684 R. Cudworth Let. 16 Oct. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) VI. 48 With the Renewall of my thanks, I shall allways remain Sir, Your most Obliged and most humbly Devoted Servant.

1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero I. vi. 441 The renewal of a commission, obtained at first by violence and against the authority of the Senate, was of hard digestion.

1799 W. Thornton Let. 12 Feb. in G. Washington Papers (1999) Retirement Ser. III. 376 The rule is, to date so as to let the sixty Days expire the Day before the renewal at Bank is required, that the Directors may have it before them on the Discount Day.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 493 The right of renewal may be forfeited by the laches of the tenant, in not applying for a renewal within the time mentioned in the lease.

1838 C. Dickens Let. 15 July (1965) I. 415 Your handwriting came like the renewal of some old friendship.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §2. 277 A return of the King's malady brought the renewal of York's Protectorate.

1908 Times 19 Nov. 6/5 The licensing justices were to be empowered also to attach to the renewal of a licence a prohibition of what was known as ‘the long pull’.

1957 W. S. Churchill Hist. Eng.-speaking Peoples III. ix. v. 242 Since the renewal of war Britain had found herself alone against Napoleon.

1990 Dancing Times Oct. 43/3 With the foreseeable closure of the Royal Opera House for redevelopment, the Coliseum's lease due for renewal in 1996, and no sign of a dance house, the lack of venue may well answer the question.

b. An act of renewing or re-establishing something in this way.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [noun] > recommencing or resuming

renovelancec1450

renovelment1477

renovelling1483

resumption1589

renewal1603

recommencing1705

reactivation1903

the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [noun] > recommencing or resuming > of an agreement, action, etc.

renovation1529

renewal1603

renewment1812

1603 H. Clapham Three Partes Salomon Song of Songs Expounded xv. 15 Hee offereth a renuall of his husbandlike loue, vpon their penitencie and returning.

1686 J. Scott Christian Life (ed. 2) II. ii. viii. 816 He continued all along in that particular renewal that was made of it to the People of Israel.

1695 Enq. Anc. Const. Eng. 24 A Renewal of this original contract.

1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 219 The Revolution was..one of those Renewals of our Constitution, that We have often mentioned.

1792 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 3 It would only subject the people to a renewal of the former outrages.

1823 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. 261 The accumulated expences of renewals, interest, stamps, stop-mouth and forbearance money.

1847 H. Greville Diary (1883) I. 189 If Guizot remains in office Normanby must be recalled, as the only chance of a renewal of the entente cordiale.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §5. 318 The meeting of the Emperor [Charles] with Henry at Southampton gave the signal for a renewal of the war.

1924 Times 10 Jan. 11 Persons residing in such areas are prohibited from acquiring any immovable property, lease, or the renewal of a lease outside the proclaimed area, with due regard, however, for existing leases or renewals.

1992 W. McGowan Only Man is Vile (1993) i. 13 The Tigers were only turning over things they didn't need and had scattered large caches of weapons in Jaffna's lagoons for an inevitable renewal of hostilities.

2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 May 40/2 Jean Daniels sees..in last year's disorders and car burnings in the suburbs a renewal of France's tradition of ‘Jacqueries’.

a. The action of replacing, repairing, or improving the condition of something. See also urban renewal n. at urban adj. and n. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun] > reconstruction > specifically of decayed or devastated area

renewal1721

reconstruction1784

urban renewal1938

1721 Free-thinker No. 320. Before the Renewal of the City [sc. London after the Great Fire], there are but Three Years..which are wholly free from that Article of the Plague.

1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 16 There must be a perpetual Waste and Renewal of the Particles that compose the solid Fibres of the Bones.

1789 T. Jefferson Let. 6 Sept. in Papers (1958) XV. 394 What is true of a generation all arriving to self-government on the same day, and dying all on the same day, is true of those in a constant course of decay and renewal.

1819 H. M. Williams tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. IV. 408 In the want of the renewal of air under the torrid zone, and in the continued action of an ascending humid current.

1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man 290 The act of fertilization is the anabolic restoration, renewal, and rejuvenescence of a katabolic cell.

1902 T. O'C. Sloane Standard Electr. Dict. (ed. 3) Trimming, the renewal of the carbons in an arc lamp.

1960 N.Y. Times 13 Aug. 14 First priority for renewal resulting from the survey is expected to go to New York's so-called ‘gray areas’—blighted neighborhoods that have not yet sunk to slum depths.

2003 Independent 25 Nov. i. 16/5 Rehabilitation in prison, better sentences outside it, and better policing, social renewal and early years help all matter as much as mere confinement.

2005 Z. Smith On Beauty 11 All this was made more poignant and difficult for Kiki by Monique's weave: a cheap, orange synthetic hairpiece that was in need of renewal, and today seemed further back than ever on her skull.

b. An act of replacing, repairing, or improving the condition of something.

ΚΠ

1724 S. Switzer et al. Pract. Fruit-gardener xxiv. 174 A Vine requires more frequent Renewals of Tillage and Soil.

1796 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening xii. 214 A renewal every three or four years will produce finer fruit.

1878 F. S. Williams Midland Railway (ed. 4) 646 We enter the erecting shops,..one for ‘rebuilds’, renewals, and new engines.

1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 687/1 Until the air is so much deoxygenized as to render a renewal of it necessary.

1961 M. G. Say Electr. Engineer's Ref. Bk. (ed. 10) xviii. 35 Where additional track capacity or considerable renewals are required, an electric signal lamp, known as the ‘Adlake’, has been introduced.

1991 Highways & Transportation Sept. 40/1 (advt.) Spearhead a department of 10 working on the design and supervision of a broad range of projects valued up to £45m, from business parks to town centre renewals.

3. Christian Church. The state or process of being spiritually renewed by the Holy Spirit (cf. renovation n. 1a); spec. (chiefly among charismatic Christians) the process of being spiritually renewed through prophecy, speaking in tongues, etc.; = charismatic renewal at charismatic adj. b.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > regeneration > [noun]

again-begettingc1384

regenerationa1425

renovationa1425

reparation1447

second birtha1513

new birth1529

gain-birtha1557

regeneracy1620

reawakening1662

renewal1737

rebirth1837

reawakenment1886

rebirthing1969

society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Pentecostalism > [noun] > charismatic movement

renewal1737

charismatic movement1966

charismatic renewal1967

1737 J. Wesley Let. 29 Mar. (1931) I. 219 There is one thing needful—to do the will of God; and His will is our sanctification: our renewal in the image of God, in faith and love, in all holiness and happiness.

1847 Bibliotheca Sacra Feb. 96 In the depth of our conviction that the renewal of the soul requires a direct agency of the great First Cause, we should not overlook the influence of those second causes which are also, under the Spirit's operation,..effective in elevating the character of men.

1890 H. C. G. Moule Veni Creator x. 208 Such asking and finding led at once to a repentant renewal of surrender and of faith, and so back to the rest, and to the readiness, which are for us, by the Holy Ghost, in Jesus Christ our Life.

1935 D. A. Vonier Spirit & Bride xii. 136 He abides, and it is this abiding presence that is the constant renewal of life; not a fresh advent like the one of the first Pentecost.

1972 S. Tugwell Did you receive Spirit? v. 40 ‘Baptism in the spirit’..still is the hallmark of all Pentecostal-inspired renewal in all the churches.

1983 A. Richardson & J. Bowden New Dict. Christian Theol. 438/1 Renewal is based on belief in the Holy Spirit as a real gift imparted by the glorified Lord Jesus to his disciples.

2003 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 22 Mar. 16 The Mission starts on Sunday, March 30 and the whole congregation asks that others join them in prayer that, through renewal, all will come closer to Christ.

4. Horse Racing. A renewed contribution of prize money for a second or subsequent running of a race; (later also) a successive running of a race, esp. one which is held annually.

ΚΠ

1795 E. Weatherby & J. Weatherby Racing Cal. XXII. 11 The first year of a renewal of the Jockey Stakes of 100gs each.

1864 Racing Cal. 131 Renewals of the Oaks stakes for 50 sovereigns each.

1913 Amer. Mag. Aug. 27/1 A megaphone bellowed, ‘We are now ready for the thirty-ninth renewal of the Kentucky Derby!’

1928 Times 20 July 6 The 41st renewal of the Eclipse Stakes.

2007 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 20 Oct. 4 Over the subsequent nine renewals, Mummify and Elvstroem have made all the running.

Compounds

C1.

a. attributive. Accounting. With first element in plural form. Designating or relating to expenditures for the repair or replacement of tangible assets; (British) designating or relating to the practice of claiming such expenditures for tax purposes in the year in which they are incurred.

ΚΠ

1842 4th Ann. Rep. Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Rail Road Co. 30 Charged to renewals fund.

1909 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 80 191 Multiply each year's annual cost of renewals per mile of railway by the past thirty years fixed period and..divide the total amount of renewals expenditure during the last ten years by it.

1988 Which? Tax-saving Guide 27/4 If not, you can claim..the cost of fixtures, furniture and furnishings you replace during the year (called the renewals basis).

1993 Accountancy Oct. 82/2 The distinction between a repair and a renewal is blurred by the Revenue practice of allowing the cost of replacing machinery and plant as a revenue expense under the ‘renewals’ system.

2009 Daily News (New Plymouth, N.Z.) (Nexis) 5 Mar. 3 The council's renewals fund will pay for $1.4m of the cost.

b. General attributive. With first element in singular form.

ΚΠ

1879 Nation (N.Y.) 30 Jan. 81/2 The credit of the city is good. Its renewal bonds, issued during the last four years, have sold well.

1924 A. J. Allmand & H. J. T. Ellingham Princ. Appl. Electrochem. (ed. 2) ix. 157 A good diaphragm must first of all be of suitable mechanical strength,..so that renewal expenses and disturbances in working are reduced to a minimum.

1930 Times 28 Nov. 12/5 Would it not serve the purpose even more effectively than the issue of renewal notices..if all driving licences were renewable only from the same date?

1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. i. 9/6 The BRA leadership is pushing to exempt ‘planned unit developments’ in renewal areas.

1995 AA Mag. (Automobile Assoc.) Summer 16/3 If your renewal date is over a month away, simply fill in the short coupon below.

C2.

renewal-minded adj. supporting or carrying out a programme of renewal.

ΚΠ

1965 Economist 6 Feb. 544/1 For its size Boston is the most renewal-minded city in the country. Mr. Slayton, the federal Urban Renewal Commissioner, recently called its eleven integrated projects..‘a laboratory demonstration of renewal techniques’.

1999 J. O. Voll in J. L. Esposito Oxf. Hist. Islam xii. 532 Morocco at that time was under the rule of a renewal-minded sultan.

2007 M. K. Hassett Anglican Communion in Crisis i. 45 Shared tastes in music and worship style have undoubtedly eased the development of relationships between renewal-minded Ugandan Anglicans and their American partners.

renewal premium n. the premium paid to renew an insurance policy.

ΚΠ

1825 G. Davies Tables of Life Contigencies p. xxviii It is required to find the value of the Policy, the renewal premium being just due but not paid.

1880 Times 23 Nov. 10/2 Received a letter from —'s agents..asking for time..to pay their principal's life insurance renewal premium.

1932 Punch 23 Nov. 573/1 I can tell you Quite Definitely that when your..Private Dwelling-House..was Burnt down, this Assurance Company was Not on the Risk, since the Renewal Premium had not been Paid on the Due-date, and the Days of Grace had Expired.

2004 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 7 Aug. Sports car owners will be all too familiar with the sight of slashed fabric and high insurance renewal premiums.

renewal shoot n. Botany a vegetative shoot formed from an axillary bud.

ΚΠ

1852 Cottage Gardener 13 Nov. 97/2 These, by a regular system of pruning, are worked in successive lengths;..the third collar (recently pruned back), producing the renewal shoot.

1920 L. H. Bailey School-bk. Farming 176 The crop should not be cut until renewal shoots have formed at the crown (surface of the ground).

2001 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 88 2145 The axillary buds from the proximal leaves of the main branches become vegetative renewal shoots, whereas those from the distal leaves become partial inflorescences.

Renewal Sunday n. Orthodox Church the Sunday after Easter Sunday; Thomas Sunday.In the Christian Church in the west, called Low Sunday, or Quasimodo Sunday.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > 40 days up to Ascension > [noun] > first week in > first Sunday in

Low Sunday1431

mois1435

Quasimodo Sunday1607

Low Easterdaya1613

Renewal Sunday1862

1862 J. M. Neale Hymns Eastern Church 53 St. Thomas's Sunday, called also Renewal Sunday: with us Low Sunday.

1998 N. evc̆enko in L. Safran Heaven on Earth vii. 220 (caption) Opening page of the homily on Renewal Sunday.

renewal theory n. a theory concerning the replacement of items that fail and need renewal; (Mathematics) the branch of probability theory which considers populations of objects which fail after randomly distributed intervals, typically in relation to the lifetime of machine components.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > probability > theoretical approach to

law of large numbers1837

Bayes' theorem1865

law of averages1875

probability theory1908

renewal theory1915

Bayesianism1976

1915 Jrnl. Accountancy 19 10 The sum to be provided on the renewal theory is based on probable cost of replacement rather than upon original cost of units.

1940 G. A. D. Preinreich Present Status of Renewal Theory 25 Lotka has a method of mathematically describing renewal theory, using the Hertz method of approximation to the solution.

1958 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. B. 20 243 The study of renewal theory has its origins in the discussion of self-renewing aggregates and the non-stochastic treatment of questions of population growth.

2007 W. van Drongelen Signal Processing for Neuroscientists xiv. 223 The major challenge in renewal theory is to understand component failure and its associated statistics.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	renewal
释义	renewaln. Brit. /rᵻˈnjuːəl/, U.S. /rəˈn(j)uəl/, /riˈn(j)uəl/ Forms: see renew v.¹ and -al suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: renew v.¹, -al suffix¹. Etymology: < renew v.¹ + -al suffix¹. Compare earlier renewance n., renewing n., renewment n. 1. a. The action of renewing or re-establishing something, or the state of being renewed; spec. (a) the action of extending the period of validity of a lease, licence, etc.; (b) the action of resuming an activity after an interruption. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun] > renovation or renewal renewinga1398 renovation?a1475 renovelty1477 renewc1500 renewance1569 renewment1570 renewal1603 repair1637 apocatastasis1678 rehabilitation1830 redevelopment1882 face-lifting1937 rehabbing1968 evergreening1972 1603 H. Clapham Three Partes Salomon Song of Songs Expounded ii. 9 Time grew (as it were) more big-bellied in the renuall of the promise to Abraham, Dauid and others. 1617 W. Adams Let. 14 Jan. in A. Farrington Eng. Factory in Japan (1991) I. 568 So..[he] sent me to the court to procure..the renewall of the old Emperor's privi'ges. 1684 R. Cudworth Let. 16 Oct. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) VI. 48 With the Renewall of my thanks, I shall allways remain Sir, Your most Obliged and most humbly Devoted Servant. 1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero I. vi. 441 The renewal of a commission, obtained at first by violence and against the authority of the Senate, was of hard digestion. 1799 W. Thornton Let. 12 Feb. in G. Washington Papers (1999) Retirement Ser. III. 376 The rule is, to date so as to let the sixty Days expire the Day before the renewal at Bank is required, that the Directors may have it before them on the Discount Day. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 493 The right of renewal may be forfeited by the laches of the tenant, in not applying for a renewal within the time mentioned in the lease. 1838 C. Dickens Let. 15 July (1965) I. 415 Your handwriting came like the renewal of some old friendship. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §2. 277 A return of the King's malady brought the renewal of York's Protectorate. 1908 Times 19 Nov. 6/5 The licensing justices were to be empowered also to attach to the renewal of a licence a prohibition of what was known as ‘the long pull’. 1957 W. S. Churchill Hist. Eng.-speaking Peoples III. ix. v. 242 Since the renewal of war Britain had found herself alone against Napoleon. 1990 Dancing Times Oct. 43/3 With the foreseeable closure of the Royal Opera House for redevelopment, the Coliseum's lease due for renewal in 1996, and no sign of a dance house, the lack of venue may well answer the question. b. An act of renewing or re-establishing something in this way. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [noun] > recommencing or resuming renovelancec1450 renovelment1477 renovelling1483 resumption1589 renewal1603 recommencing1705 reactivation1903 the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [noun] > recommencing or resuming > of an agreement, action, etc. renovation1529 renewal1603 renewment1812 1603 H. Clapham Three Partes Salomon Song of Songs Expounded xv. 15 Hee offereth a renuall of his husbandlike loue, vpon their penitencie and returning. 1686 J. Scott Christian Life (ed. 2) II. ii. viii. 816 He continued all along in that particular renewal that was made of it to the People of Israel. 1695 Enq. Anc. Const. Eng. 24 A Renewal of this original contract. 1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 219 The Revolution was..one of those Renewals of our Constitution, that We have often mentioned. 1792 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 3 It would only subject the people to a renewal of the former outrages. 1823 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. 261 The accumulated expences of renewals, interest, stamps, stop-mouth and forbearance money. 1847 H. Greville Diary (1883) I. 189 If Guizot remains in office Normanby must be recalled, as the only chance of a renewal of the entente cordiale. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §5. 318 The meeting of the Emperor [Charles] with Henry at Southampton gave the signal for a renewal of the war. 1924 Times 10 Jan. 11 Persons residing in such areas are prohibited from acquiring any immovable property, lease, or the renewal of a lease outside the proclaimed area, with due regard, however, for existing leases or renewals. 1992 W. McGowan Only Man is Vile (1993) i. 13 The Tigers were only turning over things they didn't need and had scattered large caches of weapons in Jaffna's lagoons for an inevitable renewal of hostilities. 2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 May 40/2 Jean Daniels sees..in last year's disorders and car burnings in the suburbs a renewal of France's tradition of ‘Jacqueries’. 2. a. The action of replacing, repairing, or improving the condition of something. See also urban renewal n. at urban adj. and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun] > reconstruction > specifically of decayed or devastated area renewal1721 reconstruction1784 urban renewal1938 1721 Free-thinker No. 320. Before the Renewal of the City [sc. London after the Great Fire], there are but Three Years..which are wholly free from that Article of the Plague. 1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 16 There must be a perpetual Waste and Renewal of the Particles that compose the solid Fibres of the Bones. 1789 T. Jefferson Let. 6 Sept. in Papers (1958) XV. 394 What is true of a generation all arriving to self-government on the same day, and dying all on the same day, is true of those in a constant course of decay and renewal. 1819 H. M. Williams tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. IV. 408 In the want of the renewal of air under the torrid zone, and in the continued action of an ascending humid current. 1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man 290 The act of fertilization is the anabolic restoration, renewal, and rejuvenescence of a katabolic cell. 1902 T. O'C. Sloane Standard Electr. Dict. (ed. 3) Trimming, the renewal of the carbons in an arc lamp. 1960 N.Y. Times 13 Aug. 14 First priority for renewal resulting from the survey is expected to go to New York's so-called ‘gray areas’—blighted neighborhoods that have not yet sunk to slum depths. 2003 Independent 25 Nov. i. 16/5 Rehabilitation in prison, better sentences outside it, and better policing, social renewal and early years help all matter as much as mere confinement. 2005 Z. Smith On Beauty 11 All this was made more poignant and difficult for Kiki by Monique's weave: a cheap, orange synthetic hairpiece that was in need of renewal, and today seemed further back than ever on her skull. b. An act of replacing, repairing, or improving the condition of something. ΚΠ 1724 S. Switzer et al. Pract. Fruit-gardener xxiv. 174 A Vine requires more frequent Renewals of Tillage and Soil. 1796 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening xii. 214 A renewal every three or four years will produce finer fruit. 1878 F. S. Williams Midland Railway (ed. 4) 646 We enter the erecting shops,..one for ‘rebuilds’, renewals, and new engines. 1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 687/1 Until the air is so much deoxygenized as to render a renewal of it necessary. 1961 M. G. Say Electr. Engineer's Ref. Bk. (ed. 10) xviii. 35 Where additional track capacity or considerable renewals are required, an electric signal lamp, known as the ‘Adlake’, has been introduced. 1991 Highways & Transportation Sept. 40/1 (advt.) Spearhead a department of 10 working on the design and supervision of a broad range of projects valued up to £45m, from business parks to town centre renewals. 3. Christian Church. The state or process of being spiritually renewed by the Holy Spirit (cf. renovation n. 1a); spec. (chiefly among charismatic Christians) the process of being spiritually renewed through prophecy, speaking in tongues, etc.; = charismatic renewal at charismatic adj. b. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > regeneration > [noun] again-begettingc1384 regenerationa1425 renovationa1425 reparation1447 second birtha1513 new birth1529 gain-birtha1557 regeneracy1620 reawakening1662 renewal1737 rebirth1837 reawakenment1886 rebirthing1969 society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Pentecostalism > [noun] > charismatic movement renewal1737 charismatic movement1966 charismatic renewal1967 1737 J. Wesley Let. 29 Mar. (1931) I. 219 There is one thing needful—to do the will of God; and His will is our sanctification: our renewal in the image of God, in faith and love, in all holiness and happiness. 1847 Bibliotheca Sacra Feb. 96 In the depth of our conviction that the renewal of the soul requires a direct agency of the great First Cause, we should not overlook the influence of those second causes which are also, under the Spirit's operation,..effective in elevating the character of men. 1890 H. C. G. Moule Veni Creator x. 208 Such asking and finding led at once to a repentant renewal of surrender and of faith, and so back to the rest, and to the readiness, which are for us, by the Holy Ghost, in Jesus Christ our Life. 1935 D. A. Vonier Spirit & Bride xii. 136 He abides, and it is this abiding presence that is the constant renewal of life; not a fresh advent like the one of the first Pentecost. 1972 S. Tugwell Did you receive Spirit? v. 40 ‘Baptism in the spirit’..still is the hallmark of all Pentecostal-inspired renewal in all the churches. 1983 A. Richardson & J. Bowden New Dict. Christian Theol. 438/1 Renewal is based on belief in the Holy Spirit as a real gift imparted by the glorified Lord Jesus to his disciples. 2003 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 22 Mar. 16 The Mission starts on Sunday, March 30 and the whole congregation asks that others join them in prayer that, through renewal, all will come closer to Christ. 4. Horse Racing. A renewed contribution of prize money for a second or subsequent running of a race; (later also) a successive running of a race, esp. one which is held annually. ΚΠ 1795 E. Weatherby & J. Weatherby Racing Cal. XXII. 11 The first year of a renewal of the Jockey Stakes of 100gs each. 1864 Racing Cal. 131 Renewals of the Oaks stakes for 50 sovereigns each. 1913 Amer. Mag. Aug. 27/1 A megaphone bellowed, ‘We are now ready for the thirty-ninth renewal of the Kentucky Derby!’ 1928 Times 20 July 6 The 41st renewal of the Eclipse Stakes. 2007 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 20 Oct. 4 Over the subsequent nine renewals, Mummify and Elvstroem have made all the running. Compounds C1. a. attributive. Accounting. With first element in plural form. Designating or relating to expenditures for the repair or replacement of tangible assets; (British) designating or relating to the practice of claiming such expenditures for tax purposes in the year in which they are incurred. ΚΠ 1842 4th Ann. Rep. Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Rail Road Co. 30 Charged to renewals fund. 1909 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 80 191 Multiply each year's annual cost of renewals per mile of railway by the past thirty years fixed period and..divide the total amount of renewals expenditure during the last ten years by it. 1988 Which? Tax-saving Guide 27/4 If not, you can claim..the cost of fixtures, furniture and furnishings you replace during the year (called the renewals basis). 1993 Accountancy Oct. 82/2 The distinction between a repair and a renewal is blurred by the Revenue practice of allowing the cost of replacing machinery and plant as a revenue expense under the ‘renewals’ system. 2009 Daily News (New Plymouth, N.Z.) (Nexis) 5 Mar. 3 The council's renewals fund will pay for $1.4m of the cost. b. General attributive. With first element in singular form. ΚΠ 1879 Nation (N.Y.) 30 Jan. 81/2 The credit of the city is good. Its renewal bonds, issued during the last four years, have sold well. 1924 A. J. Allmand & H. J. T. Ellingham Princ. Appl. Electrochem. (ed. 2) ix. 157 A good diaphragm must first of all be of suitable mechanical strength,..so that renewal expenses and disturbances in working are reduced to a minimum. 1930 Times 28 Nov. 12/5 Would it not serve the purpose even more effectively than the issue of renewal notices..if all driving licences were renewable only from the same date? 1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. i. 9/6 The BRA leadership is pushing to exempt ‘planned unit developments’ in renewal areas. 1995 AA Mag. (Automobile Assoc.) Summer 16/3 If your renewal date is over a month away, simply fill in the short coupon below. C2. renewal-minded adj. supporting or carrying out a programme of renewal. ΚΠ 1965 Economist 6 Feb. 544/1 For its size Boston is the most renewal-minded city in the country. Mr. Slayton, the federal Urban Renewal Commissioner, recently called its eleven integrated projects..‘a laboratory demonstration of renewal techniques’. 1999 J. O. Voll in J. L. Esposito Oxf. Hist. Islam xii. 532 Morocco at that time was under the rule of a renewal-minded sultan. 2007 M. K. Hassett Anglican Communion in Crisis i. 45 Shared tastes in music and worship style have undoubtedly eased the development of relationships between renewal-minded Ugandan Anglicans and their American partners. renewal premium n. the premium paid to renew an insurance policy. ΚΠ 1825 G. Davies Tables of Life Contigencies p. xxviii It is required to find the value of the Policy, the renewal premium being just due but not paid. 1880 Times 23 Nov. 10/2 Received a letter from —'s agents..asking for time..to pay their principal's life insurance renewal premium. 1932 Punch 23 Nov. 573/1 I can tell you Quite Definitely that when your..Private Dwelling-House..was Burnt down, this Assurance Company was Not on the Risk, since the Renewal Premium had not been Paid on the Due-date, and the Days of Grace had Expired. 2004 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 7 Aug. Sports car owners will be all too familiar with the sight of slashed fabric and high insurance renewal premiums. renewal shoot n. Botany a vegetative shoot formed from an axillary bud. ΚΠ 1852 Cottage Gardener 13 Nov. 97/2 These, by a regular system of pruning, are worked in successive lengths;..the third collar (recently pruned back), producing the renewal shoot. 1920 L. H. Bailey School-bk. Farming 176 The crop should not be cut until renewal shoots have formed at the crown (surface of the ground). 2001 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 88 2145 The axillary buds from the proximal leaves of the main branches become vegetative renewal shoots, whereas those from the distal leaves become partial inflorescences. Renewal Sunday n. Orthodox Church the Sunday after Easter Sunday; Thomas Sunday.In the Christian Church in the west, called Low Sunday, or Quasimodo Sunday. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > 40 days up to Ascension > [noun] > first week in > first Sunday in Low Sunday1431 mois1435 Quasimodo Sunday1607 Low Easterdaya1613 Renewal Sunday1862 1862 J. M. Neale Hymns Eastern Church 53 St. Thomas's Sunday, called also Renewal Sunday: with us Low Sunday. 1998 N. evc̆enko in L. Safran Heaven on Earth vii. 220 (caption) Opening page of the homily on Renewal Sunday. renewal theory n. a theory concerning the replacement of items that fail and need renewal; (Mathematics) the branch of probability theory which considers populations of objects which fail after randomly distributed intervals, typically in relation to the lifetime of machine components. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > probability > theoretical approach to law of large numbers1837 Bayes' theorem1865 law of averages1875 probability theory1908 renewal theory1915 Bayesianism1976 1915 Jrnl. Accountancy 19 10 The sum to be provided on the renewal theory is based on probable cost of replacement rather than upon original cost of units. 1940 G. A. D. Preinreich Present Status of Renewal Theory 25 Lotka has a method of mathematically describing renewal theory, using the Hertz method of approximation to the solution. 1958 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. B. 20 243 The study of renewal theory has its origins in the discussion of self-renewing aggregates and the non-stochastic treatment of questions of population growth. 2007 W. van Drongelen Signal Processing for Neuroscientists xiv. 223 The major challenge in renewal theory is to understand component failure and its associated statistics. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1603
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