born-again
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.99 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having been spiritually changed through faith.
adj
Having a renewed commitment to Jesus Christ.
adj
Of or pertaining to evangelicalism.
adj
noun
Someone who has been spiritually changed through their (Christian) faith.
noun
Someone who has a renewed commitment to Jesus Christ.
noun
An evangelical Christian.
Example Sentences
- "He proclaimed himself a born-again Christian during a church retreat."
- "And in both cases, a man named Rob Monster – an outspoken born-again Christian and the CEO of a tech company called Epik – made pointed restorations, republishing much of the New Zealand content and putting Gab back online. All in the name, he said, of free speech."
- "To many people a born-again philosophy is a fundamentalist philosophy."
- "After not picking up a shovel for twenty years, she finally saw the beauty in flowers and declared herself a born-again gardener."
- "Jack Scatalone might have been a born-again bastard during their training, but he was their bastard. And the Special Forces never abandoned one of their own."
Etymology
From the New Testament: "Jesus replied, 'Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born again.'" [John 3:3, Today's New International Version].