transmigration

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

noun

1. the act of transmigrating.
2. the passage of a soul after death into another body; metempsychosis.

Word History and Origins

Origin of transmigration¹

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

Example Sentences

A month into your transmigration, you read that Il Primo Omicidio has moved to a city two hours away.

From MIT Technology Review

The letters fog and fade out toward the top, miming a transmigration into the billboard.

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You have sensed it all along, even before your transmigration—there is a fear that gives strength and a fear that takes it away.

From MIT Technology Review

I dont believe in the transmigration of souls; I dont want to come back and pull through another miserable existence.

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They believe in the transmigration of the soul into other men and into animals, and in demons, witchcraft and magic.

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The young man's consent and the magnetic manipulation of a competent physician are sufficient for the transmigration.

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But in that case it is not transmigration but the re-appearance of the same person after he has ceased to be.

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In some systems of transmigration the man, forced after death to assume a lower form, may rise by good conduct to a higher form.

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