Definition of "metempsychosis"
metempsychosis
/mɛtəmsʌɪˈkəʊsɪs/
noun
countable and uncountable, plural metempsychoses
Transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death.
Quotations
The Fates that are so careful to shut the doors of each successive life behind us had, in this case, been neglectful, and Charlie was looking, though that he did not know, where never man had been permitted to look with full knowledge since Time began. Above all he was absolutely ignorant of the knowledge sold to me for five pounds; and he would retain that ignorance, for bank-clerks do not understand metempsychosis, and a sound commercial education does not include Greek.
1891, Rudyard Kipling, The Finest Story in the World