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1611 F. Davison et al. Poet. Rapsodie (new ed.) 211 For by his willing death, he deaths selfe wholy defeated, And so vs all from eternall death, by death rebegetted From death again rising, he deaths prince mightily maimed.

a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 187 He ruin'd mee, and I am re-begot Of absence, darknesse, death.

1645 G. Wither Vox Pacifica 136 Themselves to re-beget Into a perfect bodie.

1761 J. Stonhouse Universal Restitution x. 207 This our new nature is..a nature possess'd by a new birth, or rather by being rebegotten.

1795 ‘Loyal Layman’ Blessings Billy's Budget 8 Christianity, and a good constitution, be re-begotten in France, by starched ringlets, full bottoms, and cauliflowered caputs, in Old England!

1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 105 All being shall be rebegotten.

1874 A. C. Swinburne Bothwell v. iv. 474 O my friend, O brother, found now father to me too, Who have raised and rebegotten me from death, By how much less I thank you for my life.

1880 Decatur (Illinois) Weekly Republican 7 Oct. If Gen. Hancock could rehabilitate, recreate, rebeget the Democratic party I would believe in him.

1935 W. Empson Poems 19 Searching the cave gallery of your face My torch meets fresco after fresco ravishes Rebegets me.

1968 Stud. Eng. Lit. 1500–1900 8 51 He is recreating and rebegetting the queen by making her origin identical with her symbology.

1990 Jrnl. Amer. Acad. Rel. 58 482 Watching Bloom beget and rebeget himself and his fathers on his texts is a bit like watching director's theater.

1762 C. Wesley Short Hymns II. 249 If on the soul thy Spirit move, The re-begotten soul receives The quickning power of faith and love.

1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 259 The rebegotten world is born again.

1993 M. Brody Manly Writing vii. 138 The fecund word passed from whole man to rebegotten whole man, in a virtuous economy of reproduction.