Synonym: Renaissance, Renascence, rebirth. Similar words: incessant, penance, sustenance, maintenance, arena, sanction, cancer, cancel. Meaning: [rə'neɪsəns] n. 1. the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries 2. the revival of learning and culture.
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91. Recent criticism has become increasingly interested in the institutions which seek to impose controls on what we can say about the Renaissance.
92. Concepts of instrumentation in this period appear still to be closely allied to Renaissance consort principles.
93. The face is that of a Renaissance choirboy, or cupid, caught up in some act of Southern atavism.
94. Among numerous accomplishments, he ushered in the Jazz Age and heralded the fabled Harlem Renaissance.
95. The book details the history of France from the Renaissance to the present.
96. Even family activities like sledding and tobogganing seem to be enjoying a renaissance.
97. This was the birthplace of the Renaissance and its streets revel in artistic beauty.
98. There's something wonderfully Renaissance about Norbrook's depiction of himself as a glutton for poetry, cramming in as much as possible.
99. Its art renaissance began in 1996, when the new owners bought it up.
100. Director Peter Nesbit has also announced plans to renovate the original museum which will then house medieval and Renaissance collections.
101. Right back Gary Fleming's renaissance at international level is now complete, exemplified by another purposeful display.
102. The first room contains the late medieval and early Renaissance collection.
103. Even more worrying, important academic publishers are commissioning fewer and fewer editions of Renaissance texts outside an increasingly narrow canon.
104. There was a lot of excitement about the ventricles during the Renaissance.
105. Nothing short of the resurrection of Renaissance man seems to be on the cards, in command of all knowledge.
106. But Shakespeare's central importance within Renaissance writing was not a contemporary phenomenon, rather the result of later critical judgements.
107. Since Renaissance times, clear glass has been fashioned into prisms, mirrors and lenses that diffract and focus visible light.
108. As he drives past the Renaissance subdivision, a quiet smile crosses his face.
109. Still, the Carolingian Renaissance in the mid-ninth century touched far more than just a select clerical few.
110. The Renaissance then can be seen as an addition to the early modern period.
111. Her evening turnout by Kay Unger is described as a burgundy velvet gown with a renaissance back.
112. Intellectual contemplation and the raw physicality of the athlete happily coexist in Renaissance man.
113. Seers galore will be on hand to shed a little light on those and other troubling queries at the Renaissance Psychic Fair.
114. Renaissance humanism was marked by such reading,[http://sentencedict.com/renaissance.html] such continual conversation.
115. Newly-weds can take advantage of the Honeymoon package at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel.
116. Similarly, during the Renaissance, humanist theory was directed at language in action.
117. Yet the solo mandolin enjoyed a now-forgotten renaissance between about 1885 and 1920.
118. The general idea behind them was that they would provide a setting for vigorous entrepreneurs, capable of generating an industrial renaissance.
119. We must further admit institutional constraints in the form of the time available to study Renaissance writing on a degree course.
120. The first rooms here contain very fine collections of stove tiles from the medieval period and the Renaissance.
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