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- noun obsolete Renown.
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- noun Obsolete form of
renown .
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Examples
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Which discouerie, if it may be made by you, it shall not only proue profitable vnto you, but it will also purchase perpetuall fame and renowme both to you and our country.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Vasilowich who brought the Russian common wealth, being before his time but obscure, vnto great excellencie and renowme.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Lawes, that he came not so soone to the age of a man, as he had purchased to himselfe by reason of his singular learning, renowme and honour.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For (to conteine myselfe onely within the bounds of this present discourse and in the midst thereof to begin) wil it not in all posteritie be as great a renowme vnto our English nation to haue bene the first discouerers of a Sea beyond the North cape (neuer certainly knowen before) and of a conuenient passage into the huge
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Is the nomber of chaste women so diminished that their renowme at this daye is like a Boate in the middes of some tempestious sea, whereunto the mariners do repaire to saue them selues?
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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And to say the truth, he mighte be placed in the ranke of the most happie princes that euer were, if the priuate affaires of his owne house had so happily succeeded, as the renowme which hee wanne in the science of warfare, and in the administration of the common wealth.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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In which voiage his valorous hart at all assaies (when any seruice should be shewed) was most manifestlie perceiued, to his high fame and renowme among the princes and nobilitie there and then assembled.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus Raphael Holinshed
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Although that I must needes confesse (to my shame) that I haue receiued marueilous assaultes of loue, not onely for the common renowme of your vertues, and through the curtesie and gentlenesse dayly imparted to me by your letters, but specially by your presence, whiche hath yelded vnto me experience and assuraunce of that, whiche all the letters of the world could not do, nor all other messages were not able to conceiue.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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To conclude, this worthie woman guided the land during the minoritie of hir sonne right politikelie; and highlie to hir perpetuall renowme and commendation.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8) Raphael Holinshed
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This day aduance your renowme, and follow the foresteps of your famous ancestors, leaue to your sonnes an euerlasting commendation.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (4 of 12) Stephan Earle Of Bullongne Raphael Holinshed
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