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Synonyms for metamorphosis

Grammar : Noun
Spell : met-uh-mawr-fuh-sis
Phonetic Transcription : ˌmɛt əˈmɔr fə sɪs

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Définition of metamorphosis

Origin :
  • 1530s, "change of form or shape," especially by witchcraft, from Latin metamorphosis, from Greek metamorphosis "a transforming, a transformation," from metamorphoun "to transform, to be transfigured," from meta- "change" (see meta-) + morphe "form" (see Morpheus). Biological sense is from 1660s. As the title of Ovid's work, late 14c., Metamorphoseos, from Latin Metamorphoses (plural).
  • noun conversion, transformation
Example sentences :
  • How to explain the metamorphosis seemed for a time a mystery.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 » by Various
  • The metamorphosis excites in the beholder an emotion of joy.
  • Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Now the metamorphosis was reversed: need it be wondered if I were sad?
  • Extract from : « The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete » by Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
  • I was handsome, and my vanity was sensibly tickled by the metamorphosis.
  • Extract from : « Clarimonde » by Thophile Gautier
  • We see “the metamorphosis of a practical object into an unpractical one.”
  • Extract from : « The Clyde Mystery » by Andrew Lang
  • It bears no mark which would indicate a future metamorphosis into a beetle.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 » by Various
  • Ever since Eleanor's high-handed departure she had been undergoing a metamorphosis.
  • Extract from : « Quin » by Alice Hegan Rice
  • Venus herself is not the more comforted by this metamorphosis.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on the Art of Dancing » by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini
  • Even the undemonstrative Wanaha exclaimed at the metamorphosis.
  • Extract from : « The Watchers of the Plains » by Ridgewell Cullum
  • The metamorphosis is effected not far from the centre of the trunk.
  • Extract from : « The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles » by Jean Henri Fabre

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