Both Uses of
renovate
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- Moonlight, and the sentiment in man's heart responsive to it, are the greatest of renovators and reformers.†
Chpt 14
- And all other reform and renovation, I suppose, will prove to be no better than moonshine!†
Chpt 14 *renovation = improvement (of something that had deteriorated)
Definition:
to improve something that had deteriorated or become old -- especially a building