born-again adj.
〈宗〉再生的,信仰再生的
born-again[ adj ]
spiritually reborn or converted
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a born-again Christian
- With a rise in visibility of born-again Christianity, total Bible sales grew 10% or more annually from the late 1970s through 1983; annual sales included an estimated 15 million commercial copies by 1984.
- A born-again Baptist and the mother of three children, she said "obedience to God" prompted her to come forward and recant her accusations.
- But among only white born-again Christians, Gore got 46 percent to Dukakis's 22 percent and Jackson's eight percent. Jackson got 96 percent of the black born-again vote.
- But among only white born-again Christians, Gore got 46 percent to Dukakis's 22 percent and Jackson's eight percent. Jackson got 96 percent of the black born-again vote.
- He returned a born-again Christian.
- Then, Oscar Persons, an Atlanta lawyer nominated Swindall, a born-again Christian with wide support among the Robertson faction. Frost withdrew and endorsed Swindall.
- Most born-again companies are like Smart Parts, rescued because the weakened dollar forces up prices of competing imports.
- "I'm a born-again Christian and I go to church.
- And Mark Silbergeld, head of Consumers Union's Washington office, says the FTC shows all the signs of being a "born-again consumer-protection agency."
- Perhaps the most dramatic born-again budget cutter is Chrysler's Lee Iacocca.
- Tanner, a born-again Christian, prayed with Bundy on death row and recounts that Bundy partly blamed his rape-murder rampage on hard-core pornography.
- But many observers say the resurgence of Catholics and born-again Christian evangelicals into the public arena has brought about a renewal of religious prejudice.
- A born-again Protestant, Rios Montt headed a military junta that overthrew President Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia, an elected army general, in March 1982.
- Mr. Rothenberg noted that evangelicals have been traditionally Democratic, and of course they helped a born-again Christian Democrat enter the White House in 1976.
- Public-opinion polls show that voters who consider themselves born-again Christians constitute about a third of the electorate, but as a homogeneous political group they are probably closer to 10%.
- Bush once again defeated former television evangelist Pat Robertson even among his most likely supporters, born-again Christians and those concerned with moral values, ABC, NBC News and CBS News-New York Times polls said.
- Returning to the United States, Cleaver became a born-again Christian and Republican.
- Under Lenin's dour gaze from a giant portrait, Soviet officials uncorked their new export supervodka and hustled American guests like born-again capitalists, with grins, backslaps and heaping bowls of caviar.