Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make bright or clear again; illuminate again.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To rekindle; light again.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To rekindle; to light again.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
rekindle ; tolight .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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That can thy light relume. posted by Sheila Ryan in literature, photography, theater | * | 1 comment comments
Put out the light, and then put out the light | clusterflock 2009
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For a time, I thought that, by watching a complying moment, fostering the still warm ashes, I might relume in her the flame of love.
The Last Man 2003
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No fire that can be kindled upon the altar of speech can relume the radiant spark that perished yesterday.
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It shall relume that Promethean fire, that sublime flame of patriotism, that devoted love of country, which his words have commended, which his example has consecrated.
Washington's Birthday Robert Haven Schauffler 1921
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It shall relume that Promethean fire, that sublime flame of patriotism, that devoted love of country, which his words have commended, which his example has consecrated.
Washington's Birthday Robert Haven Schauffler 1921
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That the eye of the sun could not kindle, the lip not of Love could relume.
Songs of the Springtides and Birthday Ode Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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Just then, as hope began to relume my soul, Mr. Moodwell approached Atkins, saying,
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What is so pleasant as these jets of affection which relume [279] a young world for me again?
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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For a time, I thought that, by watching a complying moment, fostering the still warm ashes, I might relume in her the flame of love.
I.9 1826
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For a time, I thought that, by watching a complying moment, fostering the still warm ashes, I might relume in her the flame of love.
The Last Man 1826
whichbe commented on the word relume
To light or light up again: rekindle. (From WWFTD)
June 7, 2008
myth commented on the word relume
Then shall be
No lamp relumed in heaven, no voices crying,
Or changing lights, or dreams and forms that hover!
(And, heart, for all your sighing,
That gladness and those tears are over, over. . . .)
- Rupert Brooke
March 9, 2009
qms commented on the word relume
The light of decorum’s entombed,
God knows when we’ll see it exhumed.
The shadows that cloak us
In all that’s atrocious
Will stay till that lamp is relumed.
October 10, 2018
bilby commented on the word relume
Missed chance to work hocus-pocus into that.
October 10, 2018