Rebirth vs Repose - What's the difference?

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As a noun rebirth

is reincarnation; new birth subsequent to one's first.

As a verb repose is

rebirth

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Noun

(en noun)

Reincarnation; new birth subsequent to one's first.

* 1989 , Saral Jhingran, Aspects of Hindu morality , page 35:

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,

Revival, reinvigoration.

* 2009 , Richard Taruskin, Music in the Nineteenth Century :

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,

Spiritual renewal.

* 2000 , Joseph Stoutzenberger, Celebrating Sacraments , page 132:

The rebirth of Baptism affirms that Christ the healer shares our life.

* 2011 , Chad T. Pierce, Spirits and the Proclamation of Christ , page 233:

Rather, in 1 Pet 3:21, those who have experienced rebirth in Christ, presumably through baptism, are promised an eschatological reward.

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repose

English

Noun

(dated) rest, sleep

* 1908 ,

Dark and deserted as it was, the night was full of small noises, song and chatter and rustling, telling of the busy little population who were up and about, plying their trades and vocations through the night till sunshine should fall on them at last and send them off to their well-earned repose .

You would not rob us of our repose , would you, comrades? You would not have us too tired to carry out our duties?

quietness, ease; peace, calmness

* Dante Divine Comedy,Inferno, Canto 10

So may thy lineage find at last repose I thus adjured him

(geology) period between eruptions of a volcano.

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Verb

To lie at rest; to rest.

* Chapman

Within a thicket I reposed .

To lie; to be supported.

trap reposing on sand

To lay, to set down.

* Chapman

But these thy fortunes let us straight repose / In this divine cave's bosom.

* Woodward

Pebbles reposed in those cliffs amongst the earth are left behind.

To place, have, or rest; to set; to entrust.

* Shakespeare

The king reposeth all his confidence in thee.

To reside in something.

(figuratively) To remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.

* I. Taylor

It is upon these that the soul may repose .

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