reincarnation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun embodiment in a new form (especially the reappearance or a person in another form)
noun a second or new birth
noun the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that a person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of Hell) depending on the person's own actions

From reincarnate + -ion.

The Doctrine of Salvation Reincarnation iii. — India, Its Life and Thought, John P. (John Peter) Jones
The Ancient Egyptians, he understood, believed in reincarnation. — She who sleeps : $b A romance of New York and the Nile, Sax Rohmer
This consciousness was not lost in the throes of reincarnation. — The People of the Black Circle, Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

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