transmigration

[ trans-mahy-grey-shuhn, tranz- ]

/ ˌtræns maɪˈgreɪ ʃən, ˌtrænz- /

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noun

the act of transmigrating.

the passage of a soul after death into another body; metempsychosis.

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Origin of transmigration

1250–1300; Middle English transmigracion<Late Latin trānsmigrātiōn- (stem of trānsmigrātiō) removal. See trans-, migration

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How to use transmigration in a sentence

The letters fog and fade out toward the top, miming a transmigration into the billboard.
The first murder|Katie McLean|August 19, 2020|MIT Technology Review
A month into your transmigration, you read that Il Primo Omicidio has moved to a city two hours away.
The first murder|Katie McLean|August 19, 2020|MIT Technology Review
You have sensed it all along, even before your transmigration—there is a fear that gives strength and a fear that takes it away.
The first murder|Katie McLean|August 19, 2020|MIT Technology Review
I dont believe in the transmigration of souls; I dont want to come back and pull through another miserable existence.
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline|Jennie M. Drinkwater

They believe in the transmigration of the soul into other men and into animals, and in demons, witchcraft and magic.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge|Various
The young man's consent and the magnetic manipulation of a competent physician are sufficient for the transmigration.
Urania|Camille Flammarion
But in that case it is not transmigration but the re-appearance of the same person after he has ceased to be.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy|Isaac Husik
In some systems of transmigration the man, forced after death to assume a lower form, may rise by good conduct to a higher form.
Introduction to the History of Religions|Crawford Howell Toy

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transmigration

[ trăns′mī-grā′shən, trănz′- ]

Movement from one site to another, which may entail the crossing of some usually limiting membrane or barrier, as in diapedesis.

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