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Definition of Born-again
1. Adjective. Spiritually reborn or converted. "A born-again Christian"
Definition of Born-again
1. Adjective. Having a renewed commitment to Jesus Christ as a personal saviour. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: by extension) Having the zeal of a convert of a non-religious cause or activity. ¹
3. Adjective. Of or pertaining to evangelical Christianity. ¹
4. Noun. Someone who has a renewed commitment to Jesus Christ as a personal saviour. ¹
5. Noun. Anyone with a renewed commitment to any kind of cause or belief. ¹
6. Noun. An evangelical Christian. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Born-again
Literary usage of Born-again
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Joseph Jacobs (1892)
"Try therefore to be born again in valour, in genius, in fortune, in all.
Display startling novelties, rise afresh like the sun every day. ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"at last I ventured to relax my rigid diet, I found myself as wholly free from
those infirmities as though I had been born again. Although I took pleasure in ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"alone remembered in which they had been born again to God and to each other."
(P. 136.) In the closing pages of this chapter (xii.) the question of slavery ..."
4. Eastern Proverbs and Emblems Illustrating Old Truths by James Long (1881)
"How Born again ?—JOHN 3. 3. A Brahmin is called dvija, twice-born—ie, first by
nature, and second by dedication to his religion. ..."
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