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unregenerate /ˌʌnrɪˈdʒɛn(ə)rət /adjectiveNot reforming or showing repentance; obstinately wrong or bad: the most unregenerate and irredeemable people you could ever imagine...- Consequently, all people were classified into two categories: they were either unregenerate sinners or regenerate saints.
- Anticipating Walter Rauschenbusch, who branded economics the unregenerate part of American society, a Methodist pastor in Philadelphia labeled the industrial world a ‘sinful,’ ‘Christless realm.’
- Thus the model favored by modern geocentrists was hatched in the mind of an unregenerate man, even granting Bouw's own revisionist historiography.
Derivativesunregeneracy noun ...- Heedless men will accuse God of injustice, as the reason for their unregeneracy and destruction…
- So they accommodated humanistic premises to explain both unregeneracy and carnality.
- Hence it is that wicked men, during their unregeneracy, are called ‘darkness.’
unregenerately adverb ...- Human kind lingered, unregenerately in Plato's cave.
- Only the unregenerately cynical Hobbes Jr. warned of a siege.
- His books are criminal classics: novels about criminals, written by an ex-criminal, from the unregenerately criminal viewpoint.
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