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  • noun US Alternative spelling of Renaissance.

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  • In its precise sense, the term Renascence cannot be applied to the movement that asserted itself in Hebrew literature at the end of the fifteenth century, as little as the term Decadence can be applied to the epoch preceding it.

    The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) Nahum Slouschz 1919

  • The breaking of the old Catholic synthesis, narrow but admirable within its limits, took place at what we call the Renascence and Reformation; the linking up of a new one is the task of our own and many later generations.

    Progress and History Francis Sydney Marvin 1903

  • Carlyle about Socrates being "terribly at ease in Zion," the promulgation of the word Renascence for Renaissauce, and so forth.

    Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889

  • The revolution that arose out of what is called the Renascence, and ended in some countries in what is called the Reformation, did in the internal politics of England one drastic and definite thing.

    A Short History of England 1905

  • The true beginning of the Renascence was the first improvement of hand-work after an age in which everything people used had been rougher and worse made than we can possibly imagine.

    Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome 1881

  • VSA arts and artsWorld Financial Center will host "Renascence" for its NY premiere in Febuary 2008.

    Renascence allows new media artists to shine in NYC BA Haller 2008

  • Miss Millay's first poem, "Renascence," was published in _The Lyric

    Contemporary American Literature Bibliographies and Study Outlines John Matthews Manly 1902

  • In her poem "Renascence," Edna St. Vincent Millay, describes what happens in me in these moments of being still.

    Catapult Magazine Naomi R. Wenger 2010

  • In her poem "Renascence," Edna St. Vincent Millay, describes what happens in me in these moments of being still.

    Catapult Magazine Naomi R. Wenger 2010

  • As a Renascence writer said: "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion" ....

    John Dewey's *Art as Experience* 2010

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