Soul vs Transmigratory - What's the difference?
soul | transmigratory |
(religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death.
* 1836 , (Hans Christian Andersen) (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), (The Little Mermaid)
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The spirit or essence of anything.
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, title= Life, energy, vigor.
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(music) Soul music.
A person, especially as one among many.
An individual life.
Of, pertaining to, or undergoing transmigration, as a soul from one body to another.
* 1850 , , Representative Men , "Chapter 4 - Swedenborg; or, the Mystic":
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* 1887 , , Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin , ch. 6:
Of, pertaining to, or undergoing transmigration, as between places.
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* 2008 , R. Balakrishnan et al.'', "Trends in Overweight and Obesity Among 5 - 7-year-old White and South Asian Children Born Between 1991 and 1999," ''Journal of Public Health , vol. 30, no. 2:
As adjectives the difference between soul and transmigratory
is that soul is while transmigratory is of, pertaining to, or undergoing transmigration, as a soul from one body to another.soul
English
(wikipedia soul)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) (the Scandinavian forms are borrowings from the Old English).Alternative forms
* sowl (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul', nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal ' soul , can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul . The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
- That he wants algebra he must confess; / But not a soul to give our arms success.
- Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.
Derived terms
* All Souls' Day * bare one's soul * body and soul * brevity is the soul of wit * dead soul * heart and soul * neo soul * sell one's soul * soul brother * soul-destroying * soul food * soul kiss * soul mate/soulmate * soul-searching * soul-strring * souled * soulful * soulfully * soulfulness * soul music * soul patch * soul searching * soul sister * world soul (soul)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .transmigratory
English
Adjective
(-)- I think of him as of some transmigratory votary of Indian legend, who says, "Though I be dog, or jackal, or pismire, in the last rudiments of nature, under what integument or ferocity, I cleave to right, as the sure ladder that leads up to man and to God."
A Ramble through the Market," The Atlantic , 1 March (retrieved 30 Sep 2010):
- To the Brahmin, the lower animal kingdom is a vast masquerade of transmigratory souls.
- [W]e probably called others bad only so far as we were wrapped in ourselves and lacking in the transmigratory forces of imagination.
Two-phase tourism promotion in Perak," New Straits Times , 14 Oct., p. 16 (retrieved 30 Sep 2010):
- [T]he Kuala Gula Bird Sanctuary offers a hideaway to see some of the transmigratory birds that regular flock to the area.
- Changes in the diet of a South Asian transmigratory population may be associated with an increase in incidence of childhood diabetes.