Second Birth

American  

noun

Theology.

1. spiritual rebirth.

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Etymology

Origin of Second Birth

First recorded in 1505–15

Example Sentences

The Two-Fold Nature of the Second Birth: showing that the "water and spirit" which are the elements of it, are not material water and air, but truth and grace, or intellectual and spiritual influences.

From History of American Socialisms by Noyes, John Humphrey

Such then—though only very scantily described—were some of the rites of Initiation and Second Birth celebrated in the old Pagan world.

From Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning by Carpenter, Edward

For thou art gone away from earth, And place with those dost claim, The Children of the Second Birth, Whom the world could not tame.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

It recast in various ways the myth of Dionysus, and especially the story of his Second Birth.

From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes

A Spring song, a song of Bull-driving, a song and dance of Second Birth; but all this seems, perhaps, not to bring us nearer to Greek drama, rather to put us farther away.

From Ancient Art and Ritual by Harrison, Jane Ellen