unregenerationn.
/(ˌ)ʌnrᵻdʒɛnəˈreɪʃn/, /(ˌ)ʌnriːdʒɛnəˈreɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌənriˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌənrəˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/ The state of being unregenerated or unreformed; unregeneracy.
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unregeneration?1574
unregeneracy1612
irregeneracy1641
unregeneratedness1642
irregenerationa1654
?1574 C. Vitell tr. ‘Fidelitas’ Distinct Declar. Requiring of Lorde i. sig. A6 Yee haue accounted yourselues wyse, before the time appointed, taken-on the Freedom in your Vnregeneration, and refused the proffered Grace of the Lorde.
1625 W. Pemble Justification v. ii. 176 All men..which are in state of infidelity and vnregeneration.
1731 J. Warne Remonstr. address'd to Clergy 34 Self-Love prevail'd in his Actions of Unregeneration.
1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne II. xiii. 270 Cheerfulness of disposition she considered a..sign of unregeneration.
1920 S. Kaye-Smith Green Apple Harvest i. v. 17 There was a sound of singing, Robert's voice raised in happy unregeneration as he took the horses to the pond.
2012 S. M. Brown In Heaven viii. 210 John Wesley..distinguished it [sc. the spirit of adoption]..from the ‘spirit of bondage’, the state of unregeneration.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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