Benew
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Benew is a verb meaning (archaic) To make like new; renew; refresh.
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,
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).
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.
Word Forms
- benews
- benewing
- benewed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ennew, renew, renue, renovel, refresh, freshen.
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