ANEW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anew mean? 

• ANEW (adverb)
  The adverb ANEW has 1 sense:

1. again but in a new or different way

  Familiarity information: ANEW used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANEW (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Again but in a new or different way

Synonyms:

afresh; anew

Context example:

starting life anew in a fresh place

 Context examples 

Then our promise shall be made to each other anew; for there is a terrible task before us, and once our feet are on the ploughshare we must not draw back.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She felt anew the justice of Mr. Darcy's objections; and never had she been so much disposed to pardon his interference in the views of his friend.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Let us begin anew, now. I loved you all the time.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

With no hope of escaping the galaxy’s gravitational clutches, the plasma cools off, slows down, and eventually rains back down on the black hole, where the cycle begins anew.

(ALMA and MUSE Detect Galactic Fountain, ESO)

But I—I have lost everything and cannot begin life anew.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Then at the end of the verse the scourge changed hands and the chanting began anew.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have, returned Elinor, colouring likewise, and hardening her heart anew against any compassion for him, I have heard it all.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Anew, afresh, or over again from the beginning.

(De novo, NCI Thesaurus)

Hyde was thenceforth impossible; whether I would or not, I was now confined to the better part of my existence; and O, how I rejoiced to think of it! with what willing humility I embraced anew the restrictions of natural life! with what sincere renunciation I locked the door by which I had so often gone and come, and ground the key under my heel!

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She was in a state of mind to be glad that she had secured her fate beyond recall: that she had pledged herself anew to Sotherton; that she was safe from the possibility of giving Crawford the triumph of governing her actions, and destroying her prospects; and retired in proud resolve, determined only to behave more cautiously to Mr. Rushworth in future, that her father might not be again suspecting her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)