metempsychosis
Americannoun
plural
metempsychosesnoun
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the migration of a soul from one body to another
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the entering of a soul after death upon a new cycle of existence in a new body either of human or animal form
Other Word Forms
- metempsychic adjective
- metempsychosic adjective
- metempsychosical adjective
- metempsychosist noun
Etymology
Origin of metempsychosis
1580–90; < Late Latin < Greek, equivalent to metempsȳchō-, variant stem of metempsȳchoûsthai to pass from one body into another ( see met-, em- 2, psycho-) + -sis -sis
Example Sentences
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After Darth Vader cut down Obi-Wan Kenobi in a lightsaber duel, the latter returned via metempsychosis as a Force Ghost.
From Fox News • Mar. 23, 2019
As to how Maf came by his feeling for history or his fancy prose style, not to mention an impressive knowledge of the works of numerous philosophers, especially Plutarch, the answer, it seems, is metempsychosis.
From The Guardian • May 7, 2010
Japanese approved, last week, certain pious rites ordered and paid for at Kyoto by one Yozo Fuyubayashi, a rich seller of flypaper, a gentleman, and a devout believer in metempsychosis or transmigration of souls.
From Time Magazine Archive
Abruptly, the categories of the infinite, the infant gods, shapes divine and demoniac, the entire phantasmagoria of metempsychosis, seemed really absorbed and Brahm himself ablated.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Saltus, Edgar
But this seems only the veil of an allegory designed to explain their dark doctrine of the metempsychosis.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
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