Meaning of metempsychosis | Babel Free
mɛtəmsʌɪˈkəʊsɪsDefinitions
Transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death.
Equivalents
العربية
تناسخ
Ελληνικά
μετεμψύχωση
Esperanto
metempsikozo
Español
metempsicosis
Suomi
sielunvaellus
Français
métempsycose
Magyar
lélekvándorlás
Italiano
metempsicosi
Polski
metempsychoza
Português
metempsicose
Русский
метемпсихо́з
Svenska
själavandring
Examples
“Pythagoras borrowed Metempsychosis of the Ægyptians, but since, it hath been received of divers Nations, and especially of our Druides[…].”
“The Fates that are so careful to shut⟳ the doors of each successive life behind us had, in this case, been neglectful, and Charlie was looking, though that he did not know⟳, where never man had been permitted to look⟳ with full knowledge since Time began. Above all he was absolutely ignorant of the knowledge sold to me for five pounds; and he would retain⟳ that ignorance, for bank-clerks do not understand⟳ metempsychosis, and a sound⟳ commercial education does not include⟳ Greek.”
“Metempsychosis, he said, is what the ancient Greeks called it. They used to believe⟳ you could be changed into an animal or a tree, for instance. What they called nymphs, for example.”
“To go along assuming that Victoria the girl tourist and Veronica the sewer rat were one and the same V. was not at all to bring⟳ up any metempsychosis: only to affirm that his quarry fitted in with The Big One, the century’s master cabal.”
“Hers was a metempsychosis of novelty, her mind⟳ a vapid thing until animated by the next absolute conviction.”
“Faiths and philosophies the world over have⟳ entertained prospects of some existence beyond the grave (perhaps in metempsychosis, the transmigration of souls), and belief in ghosts, shades or the wandering spirits of lost souls has been ubiquitous. Any culture crediting supernatural powers is likely to entertain an afterlife of sorts. But this Christian identification of the self with a 'separate⟳ soul' which transcended the flesh was especially indebted to theosophies rooted in the Eastern Mediterranean.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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