单词 | renewer |
释义 | renewern. A person who or thing which renews or restores. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun] > renovation or renewal > one who renewera1398 renovator1597 renovater1791 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 131v Also fyre..is clepid renewere of alle þingis and wardeyn of kynde, for withoute vertue of fyre may no vertue of bodyly kynde endure noþir abide. ?a1450 in H. Sandison Chanson d'Aventure in Middle Eng. (1913) 124 Sayth the worlde..‘I wyll not dysceue the, yf thow with me agree, For of all ioye and myrth I am the renewer.’ a1547 Earl of Surrey Poems (1964) 26 O place of blisse, renewer of my woos. 1589 T. Cooper Admon. People of Eng. 105 The first renuers and restorers of the Gospell in this latter age. 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 179 Protectors of our peace, And sole renewers of our hopes encrease. 1680 W. Simpson Some Observ. Nean or Ninsing 5 Piso that Learned Physician esteems it a mighty Restorer of Nature, and as far as may be a Renewer of Youth. 1740 D. Waterland Regeneration ii. 17 He is not his own Regenerator..: He is, however, his own Renewer. 1797 P. Howard Scriptural Hist. Earth & Mankind i. 118 Nous was esteemed by the Egyptians the renewer of mankind. 1861 R. C. Trench Comm. Epist. 7 Churches Asia 127 Everywhere setting forth himself as the only renewer of all which sin had made old. 1884 Western Morning News 10 Sept. 4/5 The ‘Renewer’, that portion of the Electric Telegraph by means of which long cable telegraphy has been made possible. 1906 Times 10 Sept. 9/6 (advt.) The Mexican Hair Renewer restores grey or white hair to its original colour and gloss. 1958 New Eng. Q. 31 205 Frost resembles Emerson as a renewer of tradition... He renews traditional poetic forms by vernacular and ‘vocal imagery’. 2005 T. R. Furnish Holiest Wars i. 3 He seems to have considered himself the mujaddid, or ‘renewer’ believed by many Muslims to come every century to reinvigorate the Islamic world. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1398 |
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