renascence Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries
    Renaissance.
  2. noun a second or new birth
    reincarnation; rebirth.
  3. noun the revival of learning and culture
    rebirth; Renaissance.

WordNet

Re*nas"cence noun
Etymology
See Renascent, and cf. Renaissance.
Definitions
  1. The state of being renascent.
    Read the Phnix, and see how the single image of renascence is varied. Coleridge.
  2. Same as Renaissance.
    The Renascence . . . which in art, in literature, and in physics, produced such splendid fruits. M. Arnold.

Webster 1913