1) new birth, reproduction, renewal, recreation, regeneration
    1a) hence renovation, regeneration, the production of a new life
        consecrated to God, a radical change of mind for the better.
        The word often used to denote the restoration of a thing to
        its pristine state, its renovation, as a renewal or
        restoration of life after death
    1b) the renovation of the earth after the deluge
    1c) the renewal of the world to take place after its destruction
        by fire, as the Stoics taught
    1d) the signal and glorious change of all things (in heaven and
        earth) for the better, that restoration of the primal and
        perfect condition of things which existed before the fall of
        our first parents, which the Jews looked for in connection
        with the advent of the Messiah, and which Christians expected
        in connection with the visible return of Jesus from heaven.
    1e) other uses
        1e1) of Cicero's restoration to rank and fortune on his recall
             from exile
        1e2) of the restoration of the Jewish nation after exile
        1e3) of the recovery of knowledge by recollection