unregeneracy

English

Etymology

unregenerate +‎ -cy

Noun

unregeneracy (usually uncountable, plural unregeneracies)

(archaic) The quality or state of being unregenerate.
- 1676, Joseph Glanvill, “Anti-fanatical Religion and Free Philosophy”, in Essays:
  And since the being Orthodox in Doctrine, and found in their new conceited Faith , was in those times a great matter , and one mark of Saint-ſhip ; as errour on the other hand was of unregeneracy , and Reprobation

References

“unregeneracy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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