transanimation

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noun

The conveyance or passing of a soul from one body to another.

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Meanings

nountransanimation (countable and uncountable, plural transanimations)

plural transanimations

  1. countableuncountableThe conveyance or passing of a soul from one body to another.

    The immortality of the soul they did not flatly deny , but falsely believe ; disguised under the opinion of transanimation, conceiving that dying men's souls afterward passed into other bodies, either preferred to better, or condemned to worse

    1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
  2. countableuncountableResuscitation of a stillborn infant.

Origin

From trans- + animation.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

transamination
Cite this entry
APA

transanimation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transanimation

MLA

“transanimation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transanimation. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “transanimation,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transanimation.

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