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  • a  tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
  • a  not reformed morally or spiritually
    unregenerate human nature
    unregenerate conservatism
  • s  unrepentant and incapable of being reformed
    an unregenerate criminal

  • For the truly unregenerate, there was the "Tucker telephone," a form of electric-shock torture used by James Bruton, former superintendent of the Tucker prison farm.
  • The unregenerate totalitarian, obsessed with stamping his personal mark on the physiology and psychology of his country, brooks no opposition.
  • In a blistering statement he denounced Western avant-gardism, but went on to enthusiastic praise for an unregenerate formalist, Hungary's late Bela Bartok.
News & Articles

  • Miami Marlins Owner's Insane Book About Peanuts Will Melt Your Brain
    When we speak of spring and baseball, we speak of renewal. New shoots of grass, possibility, the warm rays in Florida. We rarely mention the game's antipodal force that dwells there too, a darkness that consumes joy—its unblinking saurian eyes unevolved for 37 million years, unregenerate in its predation on all hope. In the right light, it even appears vaguely human—the leering aspect of a ...
    April 3, 2014 - Deadspin
Quotes

  • Martin Amis in The Weekly Standard
    Martin Amis said that there was "something barefaced, even aggressive, in the programmatic way that the novel arranges for its three most unregenerate characters to claim the highest spiritual honours."

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