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Antonyms for recommencement

Grammar : Noun
Spell : kuh-mens-muh nt
Phonetic Transcription : kəˈmɛns mənt

Definition of recommencement

Origin :
  • late 13c., "beginning," from Old French comencement "beginning, start" (Modern French commencement), from comencier (see commence). Meaning "school graduation ceremony" attested by 1850, American English. (Sense "entrance upon the privileges of a master or doctor in a university" is from late 14c.)
  • I know what you are thinking of -- the class members grouped in a semicircle on the stage, the three scared boys in new ready-made black suits, the seventeen pretty girls in fluffy white dresses (the gowns of the year), each senior holding a ribbon-tied manuscript bulging with thoughts on "Beyond the Alps Lies Italy," "Our Ship is Launched -- Whither Shall it Sail?" and similar topics. [Charles Moreau Harger, "The Real Commencement," "New Outlook," May 8, 1909]
  • As in renewal : noun recurrence
  • As in refurbishment : noun renewal
  • As in resumption : noun renewal
  • As in revampment : noun renewal
Example sentences :
  • But at the music's recommencement he turned directly to her.
  • Extract from : « The Innocent Adventuress » by Mary Hastings Bradley
  • The life of humanity, history, are but an interminable "recommencement of things."
  • Extract from : « The Dead Command » by Vicente Blasco Ibez
  • More raps with the stick, more scolding, and a recommencement.
  • Extract from : « The Kingdom of God is Within You, What is Art » by Lyof N. Tolstoi
  • Nowhere is there the slightest evidence of pause or of recommencement.
  • Extract from : « The Gospel Of Evolution » by Edward Aveling
  • Would she have anything to do with the settling which must precede his recommencement of existence?
  • Extract from : « Sir Tom » by Mrs. Oliphant
  • After three centuries we are at the eve of a recommencement.
  • Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 » by Various
  • April, the harvest month, marked the recommencement of ceremonial observances and a revival of social life.
  • Extract from : « The Andes of Southern Peru » by Isaiah Bowman
  • At any time during such a period of rest, a stimulus of any kind will immediately determine a recommencement of the manÅ“uvre.
  • Extract from : « Jellyfish, Starfish, and Sea-Urchins: Being a Research on Primitive Nervous Systems » by G. J. Romanes
  • It was the recommencement of religious civil war, with more deadliness than ever.
  • Extract from : « A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times » by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
  • Society, my Chloe, is a recommencement upon an upper level of the savage system; we must have our sacrifices.
  • Extract from : « The Short Works of George Meredith » by George Meredith

Synonyms for recommencement

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