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Meanings of metempsychosis in English

Portuguese
metempsicose
Catalan
metempsicosi

After death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body.

metempsicose
Synonyms
Examples for "rebirth"
Examples for "rebirth"
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And often the story returns to midnight, rebirth and a new day.
Wired
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Up-and-coming gap year locations Colombia is the midst of a tourism rebirth.
BBC
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State capitalism is not the rebirth of socialist central planning, he writes.
Reuters
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Of course, another manifestation of rebirth -Renaissance sprang to mind immediately.
The Guardian
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But that rebirth is on hold, a hostage to German domestic politics.
The Irish Times
Usage of metempsychosis in English
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The idea of metempsychosis was very much in vogue at this epoch.
George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings
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The new theory of metempsychosis saw the light about fifty years ago.
Modern Saints and Seers
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His practical brain refused to speculate even upon the doctrine of metempsychosis.
The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Ha...
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The best metempsychosis is for us to appear again in others.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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And failing to distinguish this, they naturally fell into the belief in metempsychosis.
The Book of Were-Wolves
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The Elysian Fields were vague, wearisome to contemplate; even metempsychosis had no adherents.
Imperial Purple
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He seems to have a leaning for metempsychosis and the doctrines of Pythagoras.
The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales
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We are drifting into metempsychosis-are in a fair way to get ourselves excommunicated.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10
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No parallel has yet been quoted to this account of metempsychosis.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
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Secondly, the conception of the metempsychosis is thoroughly coherent with Plato's whole philosophy.
The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
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This doctrine of re-birth is known as the transmigration of souls (metempsychosis).
General History for Colleges and High Schools
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The doctrine of metempsychosis upheld by the Hindus is fallacious.
Dawn of a New Day
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That it differs widely from the Egyptian metempsychosis is clear.
Evolution and Ethics, and Other Essays
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It was here he imbibed his doctrine of the metempsychosis, or transmigration of souls.
History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 / ...
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Always Africa is giving us something new or some metempsychosis of a world-old thing.
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
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There is a dash of metempsychosis in it-andit is the strength of the piece.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
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Portuguese
metempsicose
Metempsychosis through the time
Metempsychosis across language varieties
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