regeneration

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I can distinctly remember that the desire to satisfy my mother's passionate longing for what she considered my regeneration was a large part of my desire to meet the change, and, if I might, provoke it.

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  1. noun The act or process of regenerating or the state of being regenerated.
  2. noun Spiritual or moral revival or rebirth.
  3. noun Biology Regrowth of lost or destroyed parts or organs.

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  • The regeneration was accomplished in a brain injury site in rats by scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and is described in a study to be published in the April 6th early on-line edition of the —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • The second is forest regeneration, and the third includes efforts towards enhancing traffic safety.
  • Rejuvanation or regeneration are the kind of in your face: we are in a new world kind of change. —  Next Big Future
  • It was the outward or ritualistic expression of the idea, already suggested by Virgil in the fourth Eclogue and the Aeneid_, that a regeneration is at hand of Rome and Italy, in religion, morals, agriculture, government; old things are put away, new sap is to run in the half-withered trunk and branches of a noble tree. —  The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
  • Yet sometimes the adopted son is said to be begotten, by reason of the spiritual regeneration which is by grace, not by nature; wherefore it is written (James 1:18): "Of His own will hath He begotten us by the word of truth." —  Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
 

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  1. from Middle English regeneracioun, from Old French regeneration, French regénération =Spanish regeneracion =Portuguese regeneração =Italian regenerazione, rigenerazione, from Late Latin regeneratio (n-), a being born again, regeneration: see regenerate.
 

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/rədʒɛnəˈreɪʃən/
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