Meaning

(uncountable, also figuratively) Rebirth; regeneration; (countable) an instance of this..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable, also figuratively) Rebirth; regeneration; (countable) an instance of this.
2. (uncountable, biology, chiefly historical or obsolete) The apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species.
3. (uncountable, geology) The regeneration of magma by the melting of metamorphic rocks.

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The elegant and fashionable female of London, would start back with horror and consternation—with loathing and disgust—could palingeneses of her ancient ancestors be presented to her.

If in connection with [Friedrich] Schleiermacher we reflect on the method of his speculations and on the contrasts which intersect each other, it can hardly be called a leap if we pass from him to the two men who were designated above […] as those who improved the System of Identity. For one of these, Johann Jakob Wagner, who had been misunderstood and was almost forgotten, a palingenesis had already begun.

Thebes, […] is an originary site, a primal scene of writing; a point of transumption, where the Phoenician alphabet transmutes into the Greek, initiating thereby the variegated career of Greek writing and its palingeneses.

In contrast to this decaying world of darkness, the contemporary clerks, scholars, and gentlemen who named the Renaissance presented it as a resurrection: a revival of texts, art, systems of government, and ways of thinking long dormant; a renovatio, or renewal, of knowledge long lost and now plumbed anew; a palingenesis, or the beginning of a new world cycle after the old had worn itself out.

On this model, codification was not aimed at effecting a palingenesis of civil society or at guaranteeing individual autonomy against public powers.

The first third of [Bertrand] Mathieu's text is given over to the painstaking alignment of [Henry] Miller with the Orphic tradition, not only in Colossus but also the trilogies, his metamorphoses into various figures including Orpheus and Hermes/Elijah and his palingeneses, or rebirths, in his works.

[P]alingenesis is to be seen in the Ectoprocta, cœnogenesis in the Entoprocta.

Now that all mammals are led back to a distant diphyodont stem, it is also true that the further we go back both in palingenesis and embryogenesis, the more widespread heterodontism is—all modern homodontism proving to be secondary.

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