The Only Use of
renovate
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- We have already reached a very high latitude; but it is the height of summer, and although not so warm as in England, the southern gales, which blow us speedily towards those shores which I so ardently desire to attain, breathe a degree of renovating warmth which I had not expected.†
p. 23.5renovating = improving (something that had deteriorated)
Definition:
to improve something that had deteriorated or become old -- especially a building