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Regeneration   /ridʒˈɛnərˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Regeneration

noun
1.
(biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs.
2.
Feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input.  Synonym: positive feedback.
3.
The activity of spiritual or physical renewal.
4.
Forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting.  Synonym: re-formation.






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"Regeneration" Quotes from Famous Books



... in my pangenesis (if such a man exists) there does not seem to me any extreme difficulty in understanding why plants have such little power of regeneration; for there is reason to think that my imaginary gemmules have small power of passing from cell to cell. (757/6. On regeneration after injury, see Massart, "La Cicatrisation chez les Vegetaux," in Volume 57 (1898) of the "Memoires Couronnes," published ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin

... be the country where the new trials of social regeneration were to be made; but she presented the greatest possible variety of customs, laws, and governments, including Emperor, Pope, bishops, and feudal princes. In Tuscany and Liguria, the march towards liberty was continued almost without effort; whilst in Lombardy, on the contrary, ...
— Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period • Paul Lacroix

... now for some time, and feel well in every way. I am gaining in strength and weight, and find I shall not need further medical treatment. The four months' medicines that you have sent me have effected a radical regeneration in my health, and I thank you for ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce

... I suggest is that the alchemists constructed their chemical theories for the main part by means of a priori reasoning, and that the premises from which they started were (i.) the truth of mystical theology, especially the doctrine of the soul's regeneration, and (ii.) the truth of mystical philosophy, which asserts that the objects of Nature are symbols of spiritual verities. There is, I think, abundant evidence to show that alchemy was a more or less deliberate attempt to apply, according to the principles of analogy, the doctrines of religious ...
— Bygone Beliefs • H. Stanley Redgrove

... weeks Ben Darby—a beast of the forest in his unbridled passions—had in some measure imaged the life history of the race. He had lived again the momentous regeneration. The protecting walls, the hearth, particularly Beatrice's wholesome and healing influence, had tamed him. He was still a forester, bred in the bone—loving these forest depths with an ardor too deep for words—but the mark of the beast was gone ...
— The Sky Line of Spruce • Edison Marshall


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