| 释义 |
renewer|rɪˈnjuːə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
One who or that which renews, restores, etc.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. x. iv. (Bodl. MS.), Fuyre is iclepid renewer of alle þinges and wardeyne of kinde. a1547Surrey in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 14 O place of blisse, renuer of my woes. 1589Cooper Admon. 105 The first renuers and restorers of the Gospell in this latter age. 1615R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 179 Protectors of our peace, And sole renewers of our hopes encrease. 1740Waterland Regeneration Wks. 1823 VI. 352 He is not his own regenerator..: he is, however, his own renewer. 1861Trench Ep. 7 Churches Asia 127 Everywhere setting forth himself as the only renewer of all which sin had made old. 1884Western Morn. News 10 Sept. 4/5 The ‘Renewer’, that portion of the Electric Telegraph by means of which long cable telegraphy has been made possible. |