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▪ I. unreˈgenerate, a. and n.
(un-1 7, 12, and 5 b.)
1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 12 What properties haue vnregenerate men, which are not more beseeming..beasts than men? 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 225 No man hath any sign given him..by which to judge of the unregenerate Elect. a1740Waterland Inquiry Communion Wks. 1823 IX. 483 In or by their natural, unregenerate state. 1795Coleridge Eolian Harp 55 These shapings of the unregenerate mind. 1839Hallam Hist. Lit. iii. ii. §31 The human virtues..of unregenerate men. 1876Canon Mozley Univ. Serm. xiii. (1877) 237 Instances of what unregenerate human nature can attain to.
absol.1655Jer. Taylor Unum Necess. vii. §2. 460 As in the unregenerate there might be some good.
fig.1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xxxvii, I was unregenerate then [in matters of art].
b. n. An unregenerate person.
c1625Bp. Hall St. Paul's Combat Wks. 1634 II. 441 Those carelesse unregenerates. 1627― Salomon's Song Paraphr. ii. 251 All the assemblies of aliens and unregenerates.
▪ II. unreˈgenerate, v.
(un-2 3.)
1861Ld. Lytton & Fane Tannhäuser 9 Suffered for a space..To range the wide world, and assay their powers To unregenerate redeem'd mankind. |