transmigration

Definition

Departure from one's homeland to live in another country; migration.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trānsmigrātiō.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "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."

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