palingenesis
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palingenesis
- /ˌpælɪnˈd͡ʒɛnɪsɪs/ UK
- /ˌpælɪnˈd͡ʒɛnəsəs/ US
- /ˌpælɪnˈd͡ʒɛnɪsiːz/ UK
- /ˌpælɪnˈd͡ʒɛnəsiz/ US
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Probably a variant of palingenesia + -genesis (suffix meaning ‘origin; production’). Palingenesia is a learned borrowing from Late Latin palingenesia (“rebirth; regeneration”), from Koine Greek παλιγγενεσία (palingenesía, “rebirth”), from Ancient Greek πᾰ́λῐν (pắlĭn, “again, anew, once more”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to turn (end-over-end); to revolve around; to dwell, sojourn”)) + γένεσις (génesis, “creation; manner of birth; origin, source”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget; to give birth; to produce”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). By surface analysis, palin- + genesis.
Sense 2 (“apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species”) is from German Palingenesis; while sense 3 (“regeneration of magma by the melting of metamorphic rocks”) is from Swedish palingenes. Both are derived from the Greek word: see above.
The plural form is probably from palingenesis + Latin genesēs (a plural form of genesis).
noun palingeneses
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Rebirth; regeneration; (countable) an instance of this.
The elegant and fashionable female of London, would start back with horror and consternation—with loathing and disgust—could palingeneses of her ancient ancestors be presented to her.
Similar: palingenesia, palingenesy, renaissance, resuscitation, revival
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The recurrence of historical events in the same order in an infinite series of cycles.
Schelling set himself the fundamental task of establishing a channel of ascensional intelligibility from the origins of creation to man, and even beyond man, in which the doctrines of survival and palingenesis, so dear to the Gnostics, found all their significance. Thus, the evolution of nature was
Similar: palingenesia, palingenesy, renaissance, resuscitation, revival
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Spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul.
[I]t was averred that all germs, or ova, were originally created—each thing living at this hour, having proceeded from a germ which was included within the germ of its antecedent, back as far as the original creation; […] This evolution doctrine was opposed by the Pythagorean idea of a palingenesis,
Similar: palingenesia, palingenesy, renaissance, resuscitation, revival, metempsychosis
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The apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species.
[P]alingenesis is to be seen in the Ectoprocta, cœnogenesis in the Entoprocta.
Similar: palingeny, recapitulation · Opposite: caenogenesis
- The regeneration of magma by the melting of metamorphic rocks. This process of regeneration of magma has been called palingenesis by [Jakob] Sederholm, who ascribes to it many of the Archæan granite and granodiorite masses of Fennoscandia.
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noun spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul
| Español | palingénesis, palingenesia |
|---|---|
| Français | palingénésie |
| Italiano | palingenesi |
| Ελληνικά | παλιγγενεσία palingenesía |
| Русский | палингене́зия palingenézija |
noun apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species
| Español | palingénesis, palingenesia |
|---|---|
| Français | palingénésie |
| Italiano | palingenesi |
| Ελληνικά | παλιγγενεσία palingenesía |
| Română | palingeneză, palingenezie |
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