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irregenerate, a. rare.|ɪrɪˈdʒɛnərət| [ir-2.] Not regenerate; unregenerate.
1657W. Morice Coena quasi κοινὴ Def. v. 54 Irregenerate men admitted to the Sacraments enjoy no proper priviledges of the godly. 1675O. Walker, etc. Paraphr. Paul 69 Carnal absolutely none are called but the irregenerate. 1720T. Boston Fourf. State title-p., Entire Depravation Subsisting in The Irregenerate. 1892A. B. Bruce Moral Order of World viii. 375 There is something of the kind even in irregenerate man. Hence † irreˈgeneracy, † irregeneˈration, unregenerate state.
1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. i. 76 This taint and irregeneracy of our nature. a1654Binning Serm. xvi. Wks. (1735) 434 Thinking it sufficient to have so much Honesty and Grace, as..may put you over the black Line of Ir-regeneration. 1657F. Rous in Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) App. 19/1 His free grace..took me up lying in the blood of irregeneration. |