Definitions for twice-born

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Spelling: [twahys-bawrn]
IPA: /ˈtwaɪsˈbɔrn/

Twice-Born is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 472 anagrams from letters in twice-born (-bceinortw).

Definitions for twice-born

adjective

  1. Hinduism. of or relating to members of the Indian castes of Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Vaisyas, who undergo a spiritual rebirth and initiation in adolescence.
  2. having undergone reincarnation.
  3. born-again (def 1).
  4. denoting any moral or religious experience that brings about a major reorientation of a person's character or personality.

Origin of twice-born

1400-50, 1785-95 for def 1; late Middle English: an epithet of Bacchus

Examples for twice-born

All my twice-born disciples who wish good to themselves should recite these sacred books and hear them recited.

Why, they did it even to the twice-born Brahmans, let alone a Jat.

Marriage is also prohibited between a twice-born man and a woman who is of the same gotra, or primitive stock.

The Brahmins used to claim that a "twice-born" saint was blameless, whatever his bodiless actions might be.

O chief of the twice-born race, I wish to hear all about it in detail as it happened.

The three upper orders are distinguished from the Çudras as the "Dvijas," the twice-born, in the phrase of the Brahmans.

For the sake of one twice-born man you must not disregard all of us.

If the monarch find a treasure, he shall give half of it to the twice-born.

And the sun did not shine; and fire did not flame; and by no means did the Vedas of the twice-born once shine.

But these were not twice-born people, like the famous Court Cards.

Word Value for twice-born
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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