transmigration

[ trans-mahy-grey-shuh n, tranz- ]

/ ˌtræns maɪˈgreɪ ʃən, ˌtrænz- /

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

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

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Their principal dogma was the immortality of the soul and its transmigration into other bodies.
History of Julius Caesar Vol. 2 of 2|Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873.
He believed in the transmigration of souls, and the indestructibility of matter.
Meditations|Marcus Aurelius
This is the conception embodied in the word "transmigration."
Comparative Religion|J. Estlin Carpenter
Those Chinese women that believe in the transmigration of souls hope “in the next world to be anything but a woman.”
The Modern Woman's Rights Movement|Kaethe Schirmacher

By a sort of transmigration of souls the vital force is redistributed, that is all.
Paris and the Social Revolution|Alvan Francis Sanborn

[ 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.