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Metempsychosis

//mɛtəmsʌɪˈkəʊsɪs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death. countable, uncountable

    "Pythagoras borrowed Metempsychosis of the Ægyptians, but since, it hath been received of divers Nations, and especially of our Druides[…]."

  2. 2
    after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body wordnet

Etymology

From Late Latin metempsychosis, from Koine Greek μετεμψύχωσις (metempsúkhōsis).

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