born-again

Thân thiện

A born-again Christian shares his testimony at a community gathering.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Spiritually reborn or converted: Describes a person who has experienced a profound, life-changing renewal of faith, typically in Christianity, characterized by a personal commitment to Jesus Christ.
   • Showing renewed enthusiasm or commitment: Used more broadly to describe a person who has adopted a new set of beliefs or principles with intense, fervent dedication.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • He became a born-again Christian after a powerful religious experience.
  • The politician is a born-again environmentalist, advocating for policies he once opposed.

Advanced Usage

• "born-again" as an attributive adjective: Almost always used directly before a noun to describe the person or their status.
  • She found support in a born-again community.
• Figurative use: Applied to non-religious contexts to emphasize a complete and passionate conversion to a cause or ideology.
  • After the health scare, he became a born-again fitness enthusiast.

Variants and Related Words

• Born-againism (n, rare): The state or condition of being born-again.
• Reborn (adj): Having been born again, especially spiritually; revived or regenerated. (Note: "Reborn" can be used more broadly than "born-again," which is strongly associated with evangelical Christianity.)

Synonyms

• Converted: Having changed one's religious faith or other beliefs.
• Redeemed: Saved from sin or error.
• Renewed: Made new again; restored.

Related Phrases

• Born-again experience: The event or process of spiritual rebirth.
  • She described her born-again experience in detail.
• Born-again movement: Refers to evangelical Christian movements emphasizing personal conversion.
  • The born-again movement grew significantly in the late 20th century.

Related Idioms

• A born-again [secular belief]: An idiom where the structure "born-again" is applied to a non-religious belief system for rhetorical effect.
  • He's a born-again capitalist after seeing the success of his startup.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. spiritually reborn or converted
   • a born-again Christian

Từ đồng nghĩa

• converted
• reborn