transmigration

Noun

transmigration (countable and uncountable, plural transmigrations)

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

   Synonyms:

   metempsychosis, reincarnation[Appendix:Glossary