self-regeneration

plural self-regenerations

1. countablerareuncountableThe capability of regeneration of oneself or itself.

   That individual effort is needed to free the world from its misery and distress. No money, no universal campaign is necessary to bring about that great reform. It may be accomplished by individual self-regeneration.

   1919, Charles Gerard Conn, For the Good of the World, Finding the Real God, G. Rice & Sons, page 151

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   Moreover, the soul possesses the power of self-regeneration, and at her own will, by her own activity, in the process of this mystic intercourse with nature, can raise herself from profligacy and wretchedness to virtue and repose.

   1805, The Eclectic Eeview, Josiah Conder, pages 104–105

   At various epochs of its history the monasticism of Rome has made a vigorous, spontaneous, effort at self-regeneration, which found expression in the foundation of new orders, each proposing some definite aim, some special sphere of usefulness.

   1815, Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge, North American Review, University of Northern Iowa, page 19