Benew

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

(archaic) To make like new; renew; refresh..

Example Sentences

The youthful season's-wonted bloom Benews the beauty of each bow'r, And to the sweet-songed bird is come *Glad welcome from its darling flow'r,

Thus far I have proceeded in a theme Benewed with no kind auspices:—to feel We are not what we have been, and to deem We are not what we should be, and to steel The heart against itself; and to conceal, - With a proud caution, love, or hate, or aught, — Passion or feeling, purpose, grief or zeal, — Which is the tyrant spirit of our though, Is a stern task of soul :— No matter, — it is taught.

We quitted it with the conviction that the grave could not be called “solitary,” while those the painter dearly loved benewed it with their tears (Art Union Journal for October).

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• benews
• benewing
• benewed

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