born-again

[ bawrn-uh-gen or, especially British, -uh-geyn ]

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adjective

committed or recommitted to religious faith through an intensely religious experience: a born-again Christian.
reactivated or revitalized: a born-again conservatism in American politics.

enthusiastically committed: a born-again jogger.

noun

a person who is characterized by a newfound faith or enthusiasm.

Origin of born-again

First recorded in 1965–70

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How to use born-again in a sentence

Cocaine busts, tax cheats, and bribe-taking, born-again Christians: Welcome to the political scandals of 2014.
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But he said he has learned from his time there and is a born-again reformer.
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There is a bespectacled born-again waving his hands in the air.
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A girl with Day-Glo red hair embraced a born-again Christian.
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His born-again parents imparted their faith onto Steven and Jordan, who also saved his virginity for marriage.
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Thus, those who are born again, are rendered fit to lay hold upon the proposals of God's goodness and mercy through Christ.
The Ordinance of Covenanting | John Cunningham
If we are worthy of our name we must be born again of the Spirit.
The New Society | Walther Rathenau
This existence is so new to me, that I feel as if I had been born again.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845 | Various
It was a healthy fever in so far as it implied devotion to an ideal, the ideal of true art, which was then born again.
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April is my natal month, and I am born again into new delight and new surprises at each return of it.
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British Dictionary definitions for born-again

born-again

/ (ˈbɔːnəˌɡɛn) /

adjective

having experienced conversion, esp to evangelical Christianity
showing the enthusiasm of one newly converted to any cause: a born-again monetarist

noun

a person who shows fervent enthusiasm for a new-found cause, belief, etc

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