Talk:renew

Tea room discussion
The intransitive sense "To become new, or as new; to revive" is marked as, but I've just added a 2010 cite. Shall we detag it? &#x200b;—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 * Given the two quotes there in a modern usage, I don't think it is obsolete or archaic.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 . < class="latinx" >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)