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metempsychosis
 
SYLLABICATION:me·tem·psy·cho·sis
PRONUNCIATION:  m-tms-kss, mtm-s-
NOUN:Inflected forms: pl. me·tem·psy·cho·ses (-sz)
Reincarnation.
ETYMOLOGY:Late Latin metempschsis, from Greek metempskhsis, from metempskhousthai, to transmigrate : meta-, meta- + empskhos, animate ( en, in; see en–2 + pskh, soul; see bhes- in Appendix I).
 
 
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