Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who renews. See bounder, 3.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, renews.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who renews

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Examples

  • Harold Pinter, a "renewer of English drama in the 20th century", received the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2005.

    The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010

  • In that light, it is not altogether surprising that the rise to power of Ahmadinejad, who paints himself as the renewer of Khomeini's revolutionary zeal, should have been accompanied by a resurgence of the belief that Israel is but a flimsy façade whose end is near.

    Eradicating the 'Little Satan' Ze'ev Maghen 2009

  • Anyuru has been hailed as a renewer of the political poem, but I find neither the political acumen of a Sonnevi nor the provocative anti-politics of an Öijer in his work.

    Archive 2009-11-01 David McDuff 2009

  • Anyuru has been hailed as a renewer of the political poem, but I find neither the political acumen of a Sonnevi nor the provocative anti-politics of an Öijer in his work.

    The Cities Inside Hall David McDuff 2009

  • Then a coupla years ago when it was time for renewering again and I getted a letter from teh DMV saying that I hads to renewer in person. *pout*

    i killd teh beast - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Libavius and many deride and carp at, yet some will have to be the [782] renewer of all arts and sciences, reformer of the world, and now living, for so

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Harold Pinter is the renewer of English drama in the 20th century.

    The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005 - Presentation Speech 2005

  • Al-Ahbash, since the 1990s, have become a tool of Syrian intelligence in Lebanon, but they still have a strong cultish organization that refers to its spiritual guide as "the renewer of the age, the supporter of the Prophet's path, and the modernizer of Time."

    Monday, October 31, 2005 As'ad 2005

  • At the same time he is a virtuoso renewer of the poetical means of expression.

    Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 - Presentation Speech 1987

  • At the same time he is a masterly renewer of poetical language and poetical forms of expression, inspired by Osip Mandelstam and

    Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 - Press Release 1987

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