1660 J. Harding tr. Paracelsus Archidoxis ii. Contents 172 Of the renovating of men.

1787 Gentleman's Mag. July 582/1 They apply the remainder [of time] to the renovating of body or mind, by such innocent amusements as tend to sweeten the temper.

1823 C. Harrison Treat. on Culture & Managem. Fruit Trees xxxiii. 315 (heading) The renovating of old and neglected fruit trees.

1862 Times 7 Nov. 10 He now came to the other important question as to the renovating of this material by the defendants.

1901 Nation (N.Y.) 3 Jan. 2/2 The renovating and processing of butter is carried on all over our country.

1954 R. W. G. Vail Knickerbocker Birthday 243 The renovating of the old building.

1979 E. Tooker Native North Amer. Spirituality Eastern Woodlands v. 158 Should the owner be alone at the sacrifice he must attend to the renovating of the tobacco and the other details himself.

2008 Sunday Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 12 Oct. 23 If not for renovating we'd still live with '50s Formica, shagpile carpet, rice-paper curtains and fluorescent lights.

1641 J. Milton Animadversions 35 As if a man should taxe the renovating and re-ingendring Spirit of God with innovation.

1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 8 By the glorious Speculation of his Mind (under a renovating and regenerate State of Grace) he may represent something of the invisible Glories.

1730 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons 219 All nature feels the renovating force Of Winter.

1779 R. Cumberland Calypso i. i. 2 Thy beauty hath a renovating power, Which Nature must obey.

1811 W. R. Spencer Poems 39 The world has felt thy renovating rays.

1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. iii. 22 Charles probably meditated to infuse a renovating vigour into his languid administration.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. v. 62 The renovating blessings of animal life and restoring warmth.

1900 E. Wharton Touchstone x. 116 The shame was deep, but it was a renovating anguish: he was like a man whom intolerable pain has roused from the creeping lethargy of death.

1959 Philos. Sci. 26 378 A popular upheaval in a stagnating society may have a renovating and integrating effect.

2008 New Republic (Nexis) 3 Dec. 30 Žižek is hardly the only leftist thinker who has believed in the renovating power of violence.

1812 G. Prior in Trans. Soc. Arts, Manuf., & Commerce 29 134 The renovating spring has not either to be wound up quick, or to be pushed beyond any catch or spring to keep it in its proper situation.

1836 L. Herbert Engineer's & Mechanic's Encycl. I. 696 The pin is not fixed to the renovating spring itself, but is part of a piece of brass, which is screwed fast to the renovating spring.

1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways III. xi. 204 Her fall had brought her renovatingly to earth.

1912 Middletown (N. Y.) Times- Press 18 June 3/3 Slowly and renovatingly, our newly purchased stone crusher and road scraper are..eliminating..the obstacles in our general runways.

1999 A. J. Von Frank in J. Porte & S. Morris Cambr. Compan. to R. W. Emerson vi. 107 Emerson's singular point of view will settle a similar glory on every mundane subject it renovatingly touches.