In Spain the Saracens were giving ground before a renascent Christian effort.
The reader must bear in mind that illuminating remark of Winckler's, which says that this renascent Athens bore for a time the face of Pericles.
In Asia the Roman frontiers were crumpling back under the push of a renascent Persia.
We have seen how the Arabs were the means of restoring Aristotle to Europe, and how such a prince as Frederick II acted as a channel through which Arabic philosophy and science played upon the renascent European mind.
Euphrates to encounter not a decadent Assyria but a renascent Babylonia.
Two great empires now dominated the world, this new Roman Empire and the renascent Empire of China.
What, then, are to be the main channels down which the renascent English drama will float in the coming years?
It is not renascent because this or that man is writing, but because of a new spirit.
And yet, starting from this last platitude, one may perhaps be suffered to speculate as to the particular forms that our renascent drama is likely to assume.
For just as we have seen on the old coin the hammerman [Page: 100] and his motto answer to the town and school; so now on its reissue to the renascent local arts and crafts, with their commemoration in this library.
But in the renascent world of Gottschalk's day the economic exploitation of fear had been carried several stages forward by the Church; and the question of predestination had a very direct financial bearing.
A new intellectual movement in Islam, a renascent Bagdad, is as inevitable as is 1950.
Through all Africa and Western Asia there is a great to-morrow for a renascent Islam under Arab auspices.
Subjected to the same intellectual training as men, they felt the same influences, and passed at the same moment from humanism to renascent Italian literature.
As the institutor of civil society in the midst of a rude population, he personified for our Italian poets the spirit of their own renascent culture.
His treatise on Pleasure is, indeed, a disputation between renascent paganism, naturalism, and humanism on the one side, and the medieval scheme of ethics on the other.
Biondo's 'History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,' conceived in an age devoted to stylistic niceties and absorbed by the attractions of renascent Hellenism, inspires our strongest admiration.
This process of renascent classicism, which was tantamount to ranascent nationality, retarded the growth of the vulgar literature.
It was the old purity that returned, the deathless beauty, the ever-renascent life, the eternal consecrated and immortal youth.
It was bound, sooner or later, to yield to the renascent impulse of democracy inherent in Florentine institutions.
Leonardo's Dionysus-John-the-Baptist seems but a careless jeu d'esprit compared with this profound and studied symbol of renascent humanism.
He has the same cherubic confidence in the renascent age, that charms us in the work of Rabelais.
His inscriptions, crosses, and images of saints are the enduring badges of serfdom set upon the monuments of ancient and renascent Italy, bearing which they were permitted by the now absolute Pontiff to remain as testimonies to his power.
Far rather would they make the most abject surrenders to the Kaiser than deal with a renascent Republican Germany.
The loyalty of the British is not to what kings are too prone to call "my person," not to a chosen and admired family, but to a renascent mankind.
The renascent religion that one finds now, a thing active and sufficient in many minds, has still scarcely come to self-consciousness.
The writer's sympathies and convictions are entirely with this that he speaks of as renascent or modern religion; he is neither atheist nor Buddhist nor Mohammedan nor Christian.
THE ENVOY So I end this compact statement of the renascent religion which I believe to be crystallising out of the intellectual, social, and spiritual confusions of this time.
The renascent religion that is now taking shape, it seems, had no founder; it points to no origins.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "renascent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: reappearing; reborn; renewed; reproductive; restorative; revived
