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Transmogrification

noun
1.
The act of changing into a different form or appearance (especially a fantastic or grotesque one).





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"Transmogrification" Quotes from Famous Books



... some six or seven months prior to the incidents about to be related, Mr. Fry himself wrought a tremendous and unbelievable change in the foregoing opinion. Almost in the wink of an eyelash he passed through a process of transmogrification that not only bewildered him but caused the entire community to sit up ...
— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon
... inexperienced as to tax my ingenuity with any such burden. With the Penelope web of female motives may fates and furies forbid rash meddling. Unless human nature here in America has undergone a radical change, nay, a most complete transmogrification, since I abjured it some years ago; unless this year is to be chronicled as an Avatar of truth and unselfishness, I will stake all my possessions on the assertion that some very peculiar and cogent reason, something beyond the desire to prosecute ...
— St. Elmo • Augusta J. Evans


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