palingenesis
Americannoun
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rebirth; regeneration.
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Biology.
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embryonic development that reproduces the ancestral features of the species.
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Obsolete. the supposed generation of organisms from others preformed in the germ cells.
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baptism in the Christian faith.
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the doctrine of transmigration of souls.
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Christianity spiritual rebirth through metempsychosis of Christian baptism
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biology another name for recapitulation
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Etymology
Origin of palingenesis
1615–25; < New Latin < Greek pálin again + génesis genesis
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The plot is a palingenesis of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.
From Time Magazine Archive
All true philosophers have been attracted by the mystery of palingenesis, and have found that its acceptance has thrown a flood of light on the questions that perplexed them.
From Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution by Fred Rothwell
Human "solidarity" was a corollary from the pantheistic religion of the Saint-Simonians, but with Leroux, as with Fourier, it was derived from the more difficult doctrine of palingenesis.
From The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth by J. B. (John Bagnell) Bury
New institutions spring up, upon which thought acts, and in and through which it even draws nearer to a final unity, a palingenesis.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
They inspire him with strong fancies of palingenesis, of the illusion of death, of the continuity of life.
From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by George M. (George Milbrey) Gould
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