rebirth

re- +‎ birth

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹiˈbɜːθ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹiˈbɝθ/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)θ

rebirth (plural rebirths)

1. Reincarnation; new birth subsequent to one's first.
   • 1989, Saral Jhingran, Aspects of Hindu morality, page 35:

     A theistic version of the above doctrine of transmigratory existence is presented best in the Bhagavadgitā which compares the rebirth of the soul in another body to changing of clothes, […]

2. Revival, reinvigoration.
   • 2009, Richard Taruskin, Music in the Nineteenth Century:

     And it was the spread of modern nationalism in the aftermath of Napoleon's defeat that mainly accounted for the nineteenth-century rebirth of the “Handelian” oratorio in Germany, where it had never thrived before, […]

3. Spiritual renewal.
   • 2000, Joseph Stoutzenberger, Celebrating Sacraments, page 132:

     The rebirth of Baptism affirms that Christ the healer shares our life.

   • 2011, Chad T. Pierce, Spirits and the Proclamation of Christ, page 233:

     Rather, in 1 Pet 3:21, those who have experienced rebirth in Christ, presumably through baptism, are promised an eschatological reward.

• reborn
• reincarnation
• renaissance
• revival
• metempsychosis

rebirth (third-person singular simple present rebirths, present participle rebirthing, simple past and past participle rebirthed)

1. (transitive) To cause to be born again or spiritually renewed.

• birther