renascence

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noun the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries
noun a second or new birth
noun the revival of learning and culture

From renascent + -ence.

The Faerie Queene reflects, perhaps, more fully than any other English work, the many-sided literary influences of the Renascence. — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
For this reason there is a continuous renascence of Stoicism from Descartes, Grotius, and Bishop Butler, to Montesquieu, Adam Smith, and Kant. — The Enchiridion, Epictetus
There was something of the Renascence Prince about his omnivorous culture and restless publicity--, he was not only a great amateur, but an ardent one. — The wisdom of Father Brown, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

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