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Palingenesis

noun

(pl. palingeneses)

Emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species. Synonym: recapitulation.

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Etymology of 'Palingenesis'

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"Palingenesis" Quotes from Famous Books

... from what is ordinarily meant by the phrase, a deeper and even mystical bond. Human "solidarity" was a corollary from the pantheistic religion of the Saint-Simonians, but with Leroux, as with Fourier, it was derived from the more difficult doctrine of palingenesis. We of this generation, he believed, are not merely the sons and descendants of past generations, we are the past generations themselves, which have come ...

— The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth • J. B. Bury

... elder assented, "we butterflies and victorias belong to the youth of the year and the world. And the sad thing is that we won't have our palingenesis." ...

— The Daughter of the Storage - And Other Things in Prose and Verse • William Dean Howells

Words linked to "Palingenesis" : cenogenesis, ontogeny, development, palingenetic, growing, maturation, ontogenesis, growth