regeneracyn.
/rᵻˈdʒɛn(ə)rəsi/, U.S. /riˈdʒɛn(ə)rəsi/, /rəˈdʒɛn(ə)rəsi/ The state or condition of being regenerate.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > regeneration > [noun]
again-begettingc1384
regenerationa1425
renovationa1425
reparation1447
second birtha1513
new birth1529
gain-birtha1557
regeneracy1620
reawakening1662
renewal1737
rebirth1837
reawakenment1886
rebirthing1969
1620 N. Rogers True Convert 282 They are by grace, in the estate of regeneracie.
1626 Huit (title) Anatomy of Conscience; or, the Sum of Paul's Regeneracy.
a1660 H. Hammond Serm. (1664) xviii. 304 Though Saul were..called from the depth of sin to regeneracy and salvation.
1755 T. Amory Mem. Ladies 92 A religion of regeneracy, and holy spiritual life.
1776 J. Johnson Riches Gospel Grace Opened I. vi. 491 These things the hypocrites represent as occult and insensible operations... That they may stagnate their own consciences, to presume upon their being in a state of regeneracy.
1853 T. T. Lynch Onward in Lett. to Scattered (1872) 340 The things they have just left behind, which in their first regeneracy are like those ‘fleshpots of Egypt’.
1872 Overland Monthly June 499 Since my last visit, the town had become literally Yankeeized, and showed its regeneracy by an air of bustling activity and prosperity very unlike its former life and that of most Southern cities.
1908 Washington Post 27 July 6/7 Doubtless other cities, impressed by the example of Washington, will invade the public eating places and demand their regeneracy in respect to cleanliness.
1982 Amer. Q. 34 501 Old Calvinists disliked the stark distinction between regeneracy and unregeneracy.
2008 BBC Monitoring Internat. Rep. (Nexis) 13 June This is the evidence of regeneracy of the middle layer in Azerbaijan.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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