Crossword clues for unregenerate
unregenerate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unregenerate \Un`re*gen"er*ate\, Unregenerated \Un`re*gen"er*a`ted\, a. Not regenerated; not renewed in heart; remaining or being at enmity with God.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from un- (1) "not" + regenerate (adj.).
Wiktionary
a. 1 which cannot be transformed in mind and spirit 2 stubborn
WordNet
adj. not regenerate or reformed; "unregenerate human nature"; "unregenerate conservatism" [syn: unregenerated] [ant: regenerate]
hopelessly bad; "an unregenerate criminal" [syn: depraved, unreformable]
persisting in a reactionary stand [syn: obstinate, stubborn]
Wikipedia
Unregenerate may refer to
- Unregenerate!, Doctor Who audio play
- In Christian theology,
- A person who has not undergone regeneration
- A synonym for infidel
Usage examples of "unregenerate".
Leaving Father Blau, unregenerate, with the sorry residue of our weekly encounter: impure thoughts, anger, dirty words, disobedience.
President, before the praise of New England has died on my lips, that I believe the best product of her present life is the procession of 17,000 Vermont Democrats that for twenty-two years, undiminished by death, unrecruited by birth or conversion, have marched over their rugged hills, cast their Democratic ballots and gone back home to pray for their unregenerate neighbors, and awake to read the record of 26,000 Republican majority.
So, despite the fact that the whole journalism industry is full of unregenerate heads -- just as many journalists were hard drinkers during Prohibition -- it is not very likely that the frank, documented truth about the psychedelic underworld, for good or ill, will be illuminated at any time soon in the public prints.
It was strongly built of rough-hewn logs, the proprietor rightly judging, in the unregenerate days of Jackman's Gulch, that hogsheads of brandy and rum were commodities which had best be secured under lock and key.
For even the most unregenerated criminals, the most dangerous bigots, he had always been able to leaven disapproval with charity, trying to understand their motives, born of heredity and nurtured by environment.
A dying world, its foul, unregenerated air filled with the darkness of corruption.