Transmigratory vs Transmigrant - What's the difference?
transmigratory | transmigrant | Related terms |
Of, pertaining to, or undergoing transmigration, as a soul from one body to another.
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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:
someone who transmigrates
someone in transit through a country on the way to a final destination
Transmigrant is a related term of transmigratory.
As an adjective transmigratory
is of, pertaining to, or undergoing transmigration, as a soul from one body to another.As a noun transmigrant is
someone who transmigrates.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.
