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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.
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
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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