transmigration
nounUS /ˌtɹænz.mɪˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin trānsmigrātiō.
1
Departure from one's homeland to live in another country; migration.
2
A change from one state of existence to another.
- Any great change is like cold water in winter—one shrinks from the first plunge; and a lover may be excused who shivers a little at the transmigration into a husband.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 109:
3
The movement of a soul from one body to another after death.
- Near-synonyms: metempsychosis, reincarnation (both broadly synonymous)
- The curioſity of the lady was highly inflamed, to know the hiſtory of the parrot's tranſmigration, which ſhe intreated the bird with all her eloquence to relate; but he preſented a deaf ear to her importunity, and, like a painted nightingale, remained ſilent.1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 12:
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- To the strength and fierceness of barbarians they [the Dacians] added a contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol I, ch 1-pt i:
- Derived terms
- transmigrational
- Related terms
- transmigrable, transmigrant, transmigrate, transmigrator, transmigratory