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Renish

Renish is the obsolete spelling of Rhenish.

Meaning of Rhenish

Adjective

Rhenish (comparative more Rhenish, superlative most Rhenish)

  1. Pertaining to wine produced in the Rhine region.
    • He tooke his rouſe with ſtopes of Rhenniſh wine / So kindly yeſternight to Bruno's health, / That all this day the ſluggard kéepes his bed.1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Mar[lowe], The Tragicall Historie of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. […], London: […] Iohn Wright, […], published 1616 (1631 reprint), →OCLC, signature...
  2. Pertaining to the Rhine river or region.

See all 4 meanings of Rhenish

Forms of Renish

comparativemore Renish
superlativemost Renish

Origin of Renish

See Rhenish. Likely influenced by Middle English Rine.

Questions about Renish

What is Renish the obsolete spelling of?
Renish is the obsolete spelling of Rhenish.

Words near Renish in the dictionary

  1. reninomas
  2. renins
  3. renipericardial
  4. renipuncture
  5. renipunctures
  6. Renish
  7. Renishaw
  8. Renison Bell
  9. renitence
  10. renitences
  11. renitencies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Renish (page history and authors); Rhenish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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