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reincarˈnation
[re- 5 a.]
Renewed incarnation; an instance of this.
1858Sears Athan. iii. iii. 273 The Essenes..rejected totally..the dogma concerning re-incarnation. 1884G. H. Pember Earth's Earliest Ages Pref. 7 Sin must be gradually worn away..in a series of reincarnations upon earth.
b. A fresh embodiment of a person.
1884St. James's Gaz. 29 Aug. 5/2 The Imam is supposed to be a reincarnation of a divinity formerly manifest in Mahomet.
Hence reincarˈnationist, a believer in reincarnation.
1881Daily News 28 Mar. 5/3 The re-incarnationists holding..that there was nothing to prevent Queen Elizabeth becoming Charles Dickens. |