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Part of the reason the symbolism of the car endures in the American mind is because of its transmutability.

From Slate • Mar. 15, 2018

It would be, on the contrary, a fact precisely corresponding with the actual and well-known transmutability of speech-sounds into each other as occurs in the phenomena of Etymology and Comparative Philology.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

This would account for the transmutability of the two sets of feelings.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Ellis, Havelock

The belief in it and in the transmutability of matter was by no means absurd, but rather it must be counted as a phase in the development of human thought.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely

M. Liebig not only denies the transmutability of elements, but rejects the spontaneous formation of germs.

From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)