What's the difference between renaissance and renascence?

Renaissance


Definition:

  • (n.) A new birth, or revival.
  • (n.) The transitional movement in Europe, marked by the revival of classical learning and art in Italy in the 15th century, and the similar revival following in other countries.
  • (n.) The style of art which prevailed at this epoch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Over the past decade, the quinolone antimicrobial class has enjoyed a renaissance with the emergence of the fluoroquinolone subclass.
  • (2) Spanish renaissance In contrast, Spanish has held up remarkably well, due to its resilience at GCSE and growing awareness of the number of people around the world who speak it.
  • (3) In ancient Rome and during the Renaissance compression by means of leaden plates was a well-known treatment of cancer.
  • (4) The facial appearance is similar to a Renaissance cherub with its gaze toward heaven.
  • (5) It will also star Tony Hale, known for his hapless characters in Arrested Development and Veep, and Natasha Lyonne, currently enjoying a career renaissance for her role in Netflix series Orange is the New Black.
  • (6) Such myths were transformed by Renaissance artists such as Titian into alluring sensual painting.
  • (7) Arthur Koestler in The Act of Creation expresses it thus: "From the Pythagoreans onward, through the Renaissance to our times, the oceanic feeling, the sense of participation in the mystery of the infinite, was the principal inspiration of the wingèd and flat-footed creature, the scientist."
  • (8) Next to an ornate Renaissance gate, the hall where the "English comedians" first acted still stands.
  • (9) The movement is part of the current feminist renaissance.
  • (10) No representative from the Scottish National party, which has placed a moratorium on fracking, had accepted Ineos’s invitation to attend the ceremony marking the renaissance of one of Scotland’s largest employers.
  • (11) The coalition's much-touted manufacturing renaissance is so far confined to a roundabout of hi-tech firms in east London, and British industry remains largely a bit-player, making and assembling parts for foreign companies.
  • (12) That's why Italians talk as though they're singing lovely operatic arias and had a Renaissance, while in Finland conversations so often go like this – First lugubrious man: "This beer's good."
  • (13) It does feel like British chocolate is making a renaissance after being in the doldrums for a few decades.” As well as its network of shops, Hotel Chocolat owns a cocoa plantation on St Lucia, which is home to a luxury hotel where a two-week stay costs up to £10,000.
  • (14) Such pitfalls of political art in the era of Hitler and Stalin help to explain why the greatest, most perceptive work of art of the 30s – not to mention the 20th century – was made by a man who up to then had seemed more interested in sex, sun and the destruction of Renaissance perspective than the urgent affairs of the day.
  • (15) For three days at the end of January, the Renaissance hotel in Washington DC fills up with television executives from around the world.
  • (16) It’s the start of a French renaissance, and I hope a European one.” He said he wanted to bring back ambition and “not play on fears but transform them into energy”.
  • (17) A survey by Renaissance Capital found that nearly half of the country's middle class (defined as an average monthly income of $500-$600) were planning to buy fridges, freezers and other white goods, "suggesting a consumer boom is under way".
  • (18) Writing in the Observer , Rogers, whose architectural partnership designed the Millennium Dome and the National Assembly of Wales, states that the “brilliant garden bridge will enhance our public realm and reconnect the city, strengthening London’s renaissance, celebrating the river, creating an oasis of calm and beauty, and opening up new perspectives on London”.
  • (19) Instead, western Ukrainian nationalism meets support as 'national renaissance' from pundits like Timothy Snyder and Anne Applebaum.
  • (20) Late Renaissance – no good.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest 'The organic nature of the city is just incredible' ... Kowloon was merged with the main Hong Kong island for the 2012 game Sleeping Dogs.

Renascence


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being renascent.
  • (n.) Same as Renaissance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There's WhatsApp and Kik on the messaging side, along with a (possibly) renascent BBM – not to mention Line, KakaoTalk and WeChat, which have big ambitions to expand beyond their home markets in Asia.
  • (2) But his obsessions were his own, fuelled by a conviction that he was repudiating the wrongs of a renascent Soviet state.
  • (3) Suddenly there was only one team in it as a renascent Newcastle enhanced their thoroughly refreshing, if unlikely, Champions League challenge.
  • (4) The recently emerging interest of urologists in utility of the laparoscope for a variety of urologic surgery is a welcome renascence of this procedure, which has been used mainly by our gynecologic colleagues, in part because of our own lack of pursuit in its development.
  • (5) These issues point to a need for a renascence in the kind of research which is based on clinical observation and on listening to what patients have to tell, with such lines of work brought into much closer contact than before with corresponding laboratory investigation.
  • (6) After four years spent alongside each other in various technical areas it will be strange for Newcastle United’s interim head coach to see his former ally urging on renascent Crystal Palace from the adjacent dugout.
  • (7) There was certainly plenty to admire about the way Guardiola’s team passed the ball and, again, encouraging signs of Raheem Sterling’s renascent form.
  • (8) He’s a much loved guy in our dressing room and for him to be back on the training ground will be really terrific.” By the time Gutiérrez returns Pardew trusts his renascent team will have built on their run of four successive wins.

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