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self-regenerating

self-regenerating adjective: capable of regenerating itself or oneself.

Adjective

self-regenerating (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Capable of regenerating itself or oneself.
    • In that country as in France there are a few illustrious exceptions, and symbols of a self-regenerating age; symptoms of a gradual return from error, and the invincible power and majesty of truth.1818, Friedrich von Schlegel, John Gibson Lockhart, Lectures on the History of Literature, Ancient and Modern, W. Blackwood, page 240
    • When it is remembered that knowledge exerts a self-expanding and self-regenerating power, and that the relations not only among the several American communities, but between all regions of the earth, are becoming more and more intimate, it is perhaps not presumptuous to suppose that the ripened...1842, James Hall, James Ellsworth De Kay, William Williams Mather, Ebenezer Emmons, The Quarterly Journal of Prophecy, Volume 2, Albany, T. Weed, D. Appleton & Company and Wiley & Putnam, page 16

Examples of self-regenerating in a sentence

  • But even granting that this self-regenerating energy were as vigorous as formerly, and that it has not more to do battle with now than heretofore, there is another and more serious question behind.1850, The Quarterly Journal of Prophecy, Volume 2, J. Nisbet, pages 399–400:
  • The self-regenerating liver may not be exhausted even through thirty thousand years.1883, William Torrey Harris, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, D. Appleton, page 81:
  • Among the countless substances formed by the lightnings, enzymes appeared and still later self-regenerating enzymes.1938, Reinhard Beutner, Life's Beginning on the Earth, The Williams & Wilkins Company, page 81:

Origin of self-regenerating

From self- + regenerating.

Questions about self-regenerating

What does self-regenerating mean?
Self-regenerating means capable of regenerating itself or oneself.
How do you use self-regenerating in a sentence?
But even granting that this self-regenerating energy were as vigorous as formerly, and that it has not more to do battle with now than heretofore, there is another and more serious question behind.
What part of speech is self-regenerating?
Self-regenerating is an adjective.

Words near self-regenerating in the dictionary

  1. self-refutes
  2. self-refuting
  3. self-regard
  4. self-regarding
  5. self-regards
  6. self-regenerating
  7. self-regeneration
  8. self-registering
  9. self-regulate
  10. self-regulated
  11. self-regulates

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