(UN-1 7, 12, and 5 b.)
1612. T. Taylor, Comm. Titus i. 12. What properties have vnregenerate men, which are not more beseeming … beasts than men?
1651. Baxter, Inf. Bapt., 225. No man hath any sign given him … by which to judge of the unregenerate Elect.
a. 1740. Waterland, Inquiry Communion, Wks. 1823, IX. 483. In or by their natural, unregenerate state.
1795. Coleridge, Eolian Harp, 55. These shapings of the unregenerate mind.
1839. Hallam, Hist. Lit., III. ii. § 31. The human virtues … of unregenerate men.
1876. Canon Mozley, Univ. Serm., xiii. (1877), 237. Instances of what unregenerate human nature can attain to.
absol. 1655. Jer. Taylor, Unum. Necess., vii. § 2. 460. As in the unregenerate there might be some good.
fig. 1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., xxxvii. I was unregenerate then [in matters of art].
b. sb. An unregenerate person.
c. 1625. Bp. Hall, St. Paul’s Combat, Wks. 1634, II. 441. Those carelesse unregenerates. Ibid. (1627), Salomon’s Song Paraphr., ii. 251. All the assemblies of aliens and unregenerates.
