unregenerated en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From un- + regenerated.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not regenerated; unimproved.
The houses themselves are so horrible in their condition, and have been so remodeled from time to time, to meet Celestial ideas and fall in with notions which are but a relic of barbarism, that not even a colored man of the most degraded type can be persuaded to live permanently in a house which has ever been occupied by an unregenerated denizen of Chinatown.
1903, James Cox, My Native Land:The merchant proceeded on his way marvelling in his heart at the uncharitableness and innate wickedness of unregenerated human nature.
1890, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Firm of Girdlestone: