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deincarnation

deincarnation noun: the process of the spirit leaving the body upon death.

Noun

deincarnation (countable and uncountable, plural deincarnations)

  1. The process of the spirit leaving the body upon death.
    • The law of deincarnation is a law just as well understood among the higher angels as the law of evolution, or of reincarnation. Deincarnation takes place when the incarnated soul concludes to return to mother nature to take upon itself another material body for the purpose of another experience...1896, William Cleveland, The Religion of Modern Spiritualism and Its Phenomena, page 165
    • According to a myth that enshrined the circulatory nature of this North India military service tradition, a bath in a holy tank of Baksar […] ensured a young peasant jawān not only consecration as a Saivite tiger-like warrior, but, importantly, also the promise of a painless deincarnation.2014, Joya Chatterji, David Washbrook, Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora

Forms of deincarnation

pluraldeincarnations

Questions about deincarnation

What does deincarnation mean?
Deincarnation means the process of the spirit leaving the body upon death.
What part of speech is deincarnation?
Deincarnation is a noun.
What is the plural of deincarnation?
The plural of deincarnation is deincarnations.

Words near deincarnation in the dictionary

  1. deinactivated
  2. deinactivates
  3. deinactivating
  4. deinactivation
  5. deinactivations
  6. deincarnation
  7. deincarnations
  8. deincentivize
  9. deincentivized
  10. deincentivizes
  11. deincentivizing

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