Definition of Palingenesis

1. Noun. Emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species.

Exact synonyms: Recapitulation
Generic synonyms: Development, Growing, Growth, Maturation, Ontogenesis, Ontogeny
Antonyms: Cenogenesis
Derivative terms: Palingenetic, Recapitulate

Definition of Palingenesis

1. n. A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.

Definition of Palingenesis

1. Noun. (biology) The apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species. ¹

2. Noun. (context: Christian theology) Spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul in Christian baptism. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Palingenesis

1. [n -GENESES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Palingenesis

palindrome in genetics
palindromes
palindromia
palindromic
palindromic DNA
palindromic encephalopathy
palindromic sequence
palindromical
palindromicity
palindromist
palindromists
palindromization
paling
palingeneses
palingenesia
palingenesis (current term)
palingenesy
palingenetic
palings
palinka
palinode
palinodes
palinodial
palinodies
palinody
palinopsia
palinspastic
paliperidone
paliphrasia
palipraxia

Literary usage of Palingenesis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology: Its Principles by Abraham Kuyper (1898)
"The Influence of palingenesis upon our View of Theology and its Relation to the Other Sciences In the preceding sections the difference has repeatedly been ..."

2. Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1902)
"... as also its philological peculiarities, maybe traced further—even to India—the proper Emergence, the true palingenesis of Spirit must ..."

3. The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau (1897)
"... of the interpenetration of souls—Possible evolution of memory and identification of it with reality—palingenesis by force of love— Problematic character ..."

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