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metempsychoses

metempsychoses is the plural of metempsychosis.

Meaning of metempsychosis

Noun

metempsychosis (countable and uncountable, plural metempsychoses)

  1. Transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death.
    • Pythagoras borrowed Metempsychosis of the Ægyptians, but since, it hath been received of divers Nations, and especially of our Druides[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 11, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Questions about metempsychoses

What is metempsychoses the plural of?
Metempsychoses is the plural of metempsychosis.

Words near metempsychoses in the dictionary

  1. metempirics
  2. metempsychic
  3. metempsychosal
  4. metempsychose
  5. metempsychosed
  6. metempsychoses
  7. metempsychosic
  8. metempsychosical
  9. metempsychosing
  10. metempsychosis
  11. metempsychosist

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