Talk:renew

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The intransitive sense "To become new, or as new; to revive" is marked as (obsolete), but I've just added a 2010 cite. Shall we detag it?​—msh210℠ (talk) 18:07, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

"Obsolete" seems wrong. It might be archaic. I wonder if it was ever very widespread relative to transitive use. It would be nice if we could find intransitive use in a form other than the -ing form. DCDuring TALK 18:39, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Given the two quotes there in a modern usage, I don't think it is obsolete or archaic. Rare maybe, but transitivity is not strongly marked on English verbs; I would expect people will continue to occasionally use it in this manner.--Prosfilaes 04:11, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Whenever I find an ‘obsolete’ word with a respectable modern citation, I relabel it as {{context|_|now|_|rare}}. Ƿidsiþ 21:18, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Per Ƿidsiþ's comment above, I have now changed the "obsolete" tag to "now rare". —Ruakh_TALK 22:07, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

renew (books in a library)

I don't seem to find a simple sense - renew (books in a library). --Anatoli ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 08:40, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

• I've added a definition. Could do with a quote. SemperBlotto (talk) 08:49, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. --Anatoli ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 09:14, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Is the intransitive verb really rare, as claimed?

I see stuff like "your Web hosting will renew on the 16th" quite often. Equinox ◑ 11:23, 23 April 2020 (UTC)