renovelance

English

Noun

renovelance (countable and uncountable, plural renovelances)

1. (obsolete) renewal

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

   • 1787, The Gentleman's Magazine (volume 57, part 1, page 463)

     I happened to be a spectator at the renovelance last year; when, to the old ceremony of riding millers, many considerable improvements were made upon a more extensive and significant plan […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “renovelance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)