Refine vs Rebirth - What's the difference?
refine | rebirth |
To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify
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, title= To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or excellent; to polish.
To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
To affect nicety or subtlety in thought or language.
Reincarnation; new birth subsequent to one's first.
* 1989 , Saral Jhingran, Aspects of Hindu morality , page 35:
Revival, reinvigoration.
* 2009 , Richard Taruskin, Music in the Nineteenth Century :
Spiritual renewal.
* 2000 , Joseph Stoutzenberger, Celebrating Sacraments , page 132:
* 2011 , Chad T. Pierce, Spirits and the Proclamation of Christ , page 233:
As a verb refine
is .As a noun rebirth is
reincarnation; new birth subsequent to one's first.refine
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Verb
(refin)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
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Noun
(en noun)- A theistic version of the above doctrine of transmigratory existence is presented best in the Bhagavadgit? which compares the rebirth of the soul in another body to changing of clothes,
- And it was the spread of modern nationalism in the aftermath of Napoleon's defeat that mainly accounted for the nineteenth-century rebirth of the “Handelian” oratorio in Germany, where it had never thrived before,
- The rebirth of Baptism affirms that Christ the healer shares our life.
- Rather, in 1 Pet 3:21, those who have experienced rebirth in Christ, presumably through baptism, are promised an eschatological reward.