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Rebirth   /ribˈərθ/   Listen
Rebirth

noun
1.
After death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body.  Synonym: metempsychosis.
2.
A second or new birth.  Synonyms: reincarnation, renascence.
3.
The revival of learning and culture.  Synonyms: Renaissance, Renascence.
4.
A spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life.  Synonyms: conversion, spiritual rebirth.



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"Rebirth" Quotes from Famous Books



... were finished works of art. When Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and Brahms put their thoughts down upon paper they left a record in ink and paper which must be born again every time it is brought to the minds of men. This rebirth is the very essence of all that is best in interpretative skill. New life goes into the composition at the very moment it passes through the soul of the master performer. It is here that he should realize the great truth that in music, more than ...
— Great Pianists on Piano Playing • James Francis Cooke

... a supernatural event. Through this act of God from above there results within the soul an experience which in every respect is a new creation. It is a cataclysmic event of the same order as the fiat lux of cosmic creation, a rebirth through which the man who has it once again comes into the condition Adam was in ...
— Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries • Rufus M. Jones

... come later, when mortality is a universal fate, as a means of rebirth and escape from death. Then the sexes develop their latest function, most prominent among the younger vertebrates, of acting as nature's most potent method of variation and differentiation. In the pursuit of the different, nature has exalted ...
— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.

... each other; but to Joan each one presented what was naturally or what he considered his kindest and most friendly front. A young and attractive woman had dropped into the camp of lonely wild men; and in their wild hearts was a rebirth of egotism, vanity, hunger for notice. They seemed as foolish as a lot of cock grouse preening themselves and parading before a single female. Surely in some heart was born real brotherhood for a helpless girl in peril. Inevitably ...
— The Border Legion • Zane Grey

... you please describe more in detail the difference between rebirth on the earth and in the astral and ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda

... a relief that was like a rebirth; he sought a new energy in the struggle "where the worst friend and enemy is but Death." After seeing service in Belgium, 1914, he spent the following winter in a training-camp in Dorsetshire and sailed with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in ...
— Modern British Poetry • Various

... really interest them. The schoolmen were losing ground rapidly. Here and there they scored a short victory. They combined forces with those fanatics who hated to see other people enjoy a happiness which was foreign to their own souls. In Florence, the centre of the Great Rebirth, a terrible fight was fought between the old order and the new. A Dominican monk, sour of face and bitter in his hatred of beauty, was the leader of the mediaeval rear-guard. He fought a valiant battle. Day after day he thundered his warnings of God's holy wrath through the wide halls of Santa Maria ...
— The Story of Mankind • Hendrik van Loon



Words linked to "Rebirth" :   redemption, salvation, nascency, revivification, proselytism, nascence, transmigration, nativity, revival, resurgence, birth, revitalization, phenomenon, revitalisation



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