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UK
/ɹɪbˈɜːθ/
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[ US /ɹiˈbɝθ/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈbɝθ/ ]
NOUN
- a second or new birth
- after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body
- a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life
- the revival of learning and culture
How To Use rebirth In A Sentence
- I believe in the sixth sense, telepathy and rebirth as I have experienced it.
- The process ends with faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ, spiritual rebirth and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
- Frogs were not symbols of death but, on the contrary, of rebirth and renewal, because of its remarkable metamorphosis of egg into tadpole and from tadpole into frog.
- His is on a quest for moksha, the salvation won when ending the cycle of rebirth.
- The two problems with that choice: (1) even if 40-50\% of the population disagrees with President Obama on issues like taxes or gay rights, probably only maybe 10-20\% of the population (those whose Facebook pages include fanhood of Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity, for instance) really sees him as "tyrranical" enough for 1700s "tea party" and "constitutional convention" references to resonate; and (2) politics are cyclical enough that as bad as things look for Republicans now, it's entirely feasible to plan for a Republican rebirth in 2012 Concurring Opinions
- The eliminationist project is in many ways the signature of fascism, partly because it proceeds naturally from fascism's embrace of what Oxford Brookes scholar Roger Griffin calls palingenesis, or a Phoenix-like national rebirth, as its core myth. Crooks and Liars
- The clone's awakening after the embryo has been removed from her body opens the possibility for the emergence of a new type of hero by conflating images of rebirth and transformation.
- This so-called rebirth of the Italian cinema in the late 1980s is emblematic of the cyclical character of Italian cinema in general, which is often characterized by film historians as a series of crises and rebirths.
- A painful bout with heroin addiction eventually led him to a spiritual rebirth.
- The Alley has undergone a rebirth under Boyd, who became artistic director in 1989.