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Regenerate   /ridʒˈɛnərˌeɪt/   Listen
Regenerate

verb
1.
Reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new.  Synonym: renew.  "They renewed their membership"
2.
Amplify (an electron current) by causing part of the power in the output circuit to act upon the input circuit.
3.
Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one.  Synonyms: reclaim, rectify, reform.  "Reform your conduct"
4.
Return to life; get or give new life or energy.  Synonyms: rejuvenate, restore.
5.
Replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue.
6.
Be formed or shaped anew.
7.
Form or produce anew.
8.
Undergo regeneration.
9.
Restore strength.  Synonym: revitalize.
adjective
1.
Reformed spiritually or morally.  "Regenerate by redemption from error or decay"






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"Regenerate" Quotes from Famous Books



... turn the Young South, just rising into existence as the friend of liberty and progress, over, stripped and unprotected, into the hands of the Old South, with its thongs, its thumbscrews, and its Lynch law; throw aside, the moment it is acquired, the power to civilize and regenerate the South—not because the war and the free discussion which accompany the war have killed slavery, but because they are killing it, and will be sure to kill it unless they ...
— Continental Monthly , Vol V. Issue III. March, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... regenerate by their statues to Rousseau is that which is next in sanctity to that of a father. They differ from those old-fashioned thinkers who considered pedagogues as sober and venerable characters, and allied to the parental. ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IV. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... Megaliths, to rise again a daughter of the Brythons, or of a Norse Viking . . . west into Anglia to appear once more as a Priestess of the Druids chaunting in a sacred grove . . . or as Boadicea—who knows! But no prose can regenerate that shadowy time. I see it—prehistory—as a swaying mass of ghostly multitudes, but always pressing on—on . . . as we shall appear, no doubt, ten thousand years hence if all histories are destroyed—as no ...
— Black Oxen • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

... 'covenant with death and agreement with hell' be annulled! Let there be a free, independent, Northern republic, and the speedy abolition of slavery will inevitably follow! (Loud applause.) So I am laboring to dissolve this blood-stained Union as a work of paramount importance. Our mission is to regenerate public opinion." ...
— History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) - Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens • George Washington Williams

... made himself proud and selfish. Thus evil, which had before remained hidden, was revealed, and became sin. As the separation from God is an eternal act, so also redemption and resurrection form an inner event. Christ is born in everyone who gives up the I-ness (Ichheit); each regenerate man is a son of God. But no vicarious suffering can save him who does not put off the old Adam, no matter how much an atheology sunk in literalism may comfort itself with the hope that man can "drink at another's cost" (that the merit of ...
— History Of Modern Philosophy - From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time • Richard Falckenberg


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