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renewal|rɪˈnjuːəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
a. The act of renewing, or the state of being renewed; also, an instance of this.
1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 227 He continued all along in that particular Renewal that was made of it to the People of Israel. 1695Enq. Anc. Const. Eng. 24 A Renewal of this original contract. 1735Bolingbroke Diss. on Parties xviii. (ed. 2) 218 The Revolution was..one of those Renewals of our Constitution that We have often mentioned. 1796C. Marshall Garden. xii. (1798) 164 A renewal every three or four years will produce finer fruit. 1838Dickens Lett. (1880) I. 11 Your handwriting came like the renewal of some old friendship. 1874Green Short Hist. vi. §2. 277 A return of the King's malady brought the renewal of York's Protectorate.
b. A planned urban redevelopment. Also in phr. urban renewal s.v. urban a.
1965Economist 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’. 1967Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. i. 9/6 The BRA leadership is pushing to exempt ‘planned unit developments’ in renewal areas. 1978Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVI. 595/2 In urban renewal schemes where roadways and footpaths are altered the lower voltage system usually requires replacement.
c. attrib., as renewal premium, renewal shoot; Renewal Sunday (see quot.); renewal theory, the branch of probability theory which considers populations of objects which fail and need renewal after randomly distributed intervals.
1862Neale Hymns East. Ch. 53 St. Thomas's Sunday, called also Renewal Sunday: with us Low Sunday. 1886W. A. Harris Techn. Dict. Fire Insur., Renewal Premiums. 1897Willis Flower. Pl. II. 335 In the leaf-axils are formed the ‘renewal’-shoots which last over the winter. 1940G. 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. 1958Jrnl. R. Statistical Soc. B. XX. 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. 1966S. Beer Decision & Control x. 216 Renewal theory concerns itself with strategies for replacing worn out parts, machines, aircraft or anything else that has to be renewed.
Senses a, b, and c in Dict. become 1 a, b, and 2. Add: [1.] c. The state or process of being renewed by the Holy Spirit; spec. = charismatic renewal or the charismatic renewal movement. Cf. renovation n. 2 a.
1890H. 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. 1894A. J. Gordon Ministry of Spirit v. 84 As the words ‘regeneration’ and ‘renewal’ used in Scripture mark respectively the impartation of the divine life as a perpetual possession and its increase by repeated communications, so in our sealing there is a reception of the Spirit once for all, which reception may be followed by repeated fillings. 1935D. A. Vonier Spirit & Bride xii. 136 Those renewals are truly something from the outside because the Spirit came and did work which He had not done before... After His coming (= Holy Ghost) 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. 1972S. Tugwell Did you receive Spirit? v. 40 ‘Baptism in the spirit’..still is the hallmark of all Pentecostal-inspired renewal in all the churches, including now the Roman Catholic. 1983Richardson & 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. 1987Church Times 18 Sept. 7/2 The convergence of their viewpoints shows how little the Renewal Movement is the respecter of denominations.
Hence reˈnewalism n., the beliefs and practices characteristic of the movement for charismatic renewal;also reˈnewalist n. and a.
1975Daily Tel. 9 Dec. 14 A letter to your newspaper is not the ideal vehicle for a full treatment of the machinations of the renewalists. 1983Current Digest Soviet Press 28 Sept. 14/1 The ‘renewalist’ tendencies in the preaching of a number of denominations. 1985Times 22 Apr. 12/6 Ironically, the most balanced and sensitive criticisms of Restorationism and Renewalism, come from the classical Pentecostals. 1988Higton & Kirby Challenge of Housechurches 10 The renewalists..look for changes within the framework of their own denomination. |
