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verb

Regenerate v. t.

To generate or produce anew; to reproduce; to give new life, strength, or vigor to. "Through all the soil a genial fferment spreads. Regenerates the plauts, and new adorns the meads."

(Theol.) To cause to be spiritually born anew; to cause to become a Christian; to convert from sin to holiness; to implant holy affections in the heart of.

Hence, to make a radical change for the better in the character or condition of; as, to regenerate society.

adjective

Regenerate adj.

Reproduced. "The earthly author of my blood, Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate, Doth with a twofold vigor lift me up."

(Theol.) Born anew; become Christian; renovated in heart; changed from a natural to a spiritual state.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Regenerate" Quotes from Famous Books

... through Me! ... Love's Might, all might transcending, Alone can draw the poison-fangs of Hate. Yours the beginning!—Mine a nobler ending,— Peace upon Earth, and Man regenerate! ...

— 'All's Well!' • John Oxenham

... cigarette. "I have detached you from my department to become secretary to the Starets. Yours will be an enviable post, my dear Feodor, I assure you. Russia is in her degeneration. The Starets has been sent to us by Divine Providence to regenerate and reform her." ...

— The Minister of Evil - The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia • William Le Queux

... enable them to look back, and recollect things past, which they had forgot only too easily; and these humble and penitential dreams are God's warning that (as the Article says) the infection of nature doth remain even in those who are regenerate, and that nothing but the continual help of God's Spirit will keep us from falling back or ...

— Out of the Deep - Words for the Sorrowful • Charles Kingsley

... of the writer was to exhibit the institution of marriage as the cause of what he was pleased to regard as woman's degradation and slavery; and his heroine is a young lady of highly respectable parentage, who proposes to regenerate womanhood by living with, and having children by, a man, without submitting to the humiliation of any legal bond. She accomplishes her purpose, and has a daughter, whose position, under our false civilisation, becomes so ...

— A Critical Examination of Socialism • William Hurrell Mallock

... individuals or the public." In the meantime Robert Dale Owen and Fanny Wright organized a party of their own, endorsing an extreme form of state paternalism over children. This State Guardianship Plan, as it was called, aimed to "regenerate America in a generation" and to "make but one class out of the many that now envy ...

— The Armies of Labor - Volume 40 in The Chronicles Of America Series • Samuel P. Orth

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