"self-regeneration" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1805, The Eclectic Eeview, Josiah Conder, pages 104–105:",
          "text": "Moreover, the soul possesses the power of self-regeneration, and at her own will, by her own activity, in the process of this mystic intercourse with nature, can raise herself from profligacy and wretchedness to virtue and repose.",
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          "ref": "1815, Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge, North American Review, University of Northern Iowa, page 19:",
          "text": "At various epochs of its history the monasticism of Rome has made a vigorous, spontaneous, effort at self-regeneration, which found expression in the foundation of new orders, each proposing some definite aim, some special sphere of usefulness.",
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          "ref": "1919, Charles Gerard Conn, For the Good of the World, Finding the Real God, G. Rice & Sons, page 151:",
          "text": "That individual effort is needed to free the world from its misery and distress. No money, no universal campaign is necessary to bring about that great reform. It may be accomplished by individual self-regeneration.",
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        "The capability of regeneration of oneself or itself."
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        "(rare) The capability of regeneration of oneself or itself."
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