deincarnation

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noun

The process of the spirit leaving the body upon death.

Scrabble 16

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noundeincarnation (countable and uncountable, plural deincarnations)

plural deincarnations

  1. countableuncountablelifestyleThe process of the spirit leaving the body upon death.

    According to a myth that enshrined the circulatory nature of this North India military service tradition, a bath in a holy tank of Baksar […] ensured a young peasant jawān not only consecration as a Saivite tiger-like warrior, but, importantly, also the promise of a painless deincarnation.

    2014, Joya Chatterji, David Washbrook, Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora
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    The law of deincarnation is a law just as well understood among the higher angels as the law of evolution, or of reincarnation. Deincarnation takes place when the incarnated soul concludes to return to mother nature to take upon itself another material body for the purpose of another experience through matter.

    1896, William Cleveland, The Religion of Modern Spiritualism and Its Phenomena, page 165

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deincarnation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deincarnation

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Chicago

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