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palingenesis

[ pal-in-jen-uh-sis ]

noun

  1. rebirth; regeneration.
  2. Biology.
    1. embryonic development that reproduces the ancestral features of the species.
    2. Obsolete. the supposed generation of organisms from others preformed in the germ cells.
  3. baptism in the Christian faith.
  4. the doctrine of transmigration of souls.


palingenesis

/ ˌpælɪnˈdʒɛnɪsɪs; ˌpælɪndʒəˈnɛtɪk /

noun

  1. Christianity spiritual rebirth through metempsychosis of Christian baptism
  2. biology another name for recapitulation
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌpalingeˈnetically, adverb
  • palingenetic, adjective
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Other Words From

  • pal·in·ge·ne·si·an [pal-in-j, uh, -, nee, -zhee-, uh, n, -zh, uh, n], pal·in·ge·net·ic [pal-in-j, uh, -, net, -ik], adjective
  • palin·ge·neti·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of palingenesis1

1615–25; < New Latin < Greek pálin again + génesis genesis
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Word History and Origins

Origin of palingenesis1

C19: from Greek palin again + genesis birth, genesis
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Example Sentences

Delormel, Descartes, and Lavater were struck with the tremendous importance of the doctrine of Palingenesis.

But he has so little mastered it that he has never understood the distinction between palingenesis and cenogenesis.

The process of the Palingenesis—this picture of immortality—is described.

It could not last long upon these terms, and again it passed away, and still waits its second palingenesis.

Some can push by the awful hour and live again, but for Anna Dickinson there could be, and was, no such palingenesis.

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