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metempsychosis in Italian

metempsychosis in Italian is metempsicosi — metempsychosis means the idea that a person's soul moves into a new body after death.

metempsychosis in Italian

metempsicosi
noun
Transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death. [from 16th c.]

What does "metempsychosis" mean?

  1. noun The idea that a person's soul moves into a new body after death.
    "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."
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metempsychosis in a sentence

  • 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.
  • 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.

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What is "metempsychosis" in Italian?
"metempsychosis" in Italian is metempsicosi. metempsychosis means: The idea that a person's soul moves into a new body after death.
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