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Transmogrification

noun

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

... Titmouse's hair. Partly influenced by the explanation which Gammon had given of the phenomenon, Tag-rag resigned himself to feelings of simple wonder. Titmouse was doubtless passing through stages of physical transmogrification, corresponding with the marvellous change that was taking place in his circumstances; and for all he (Tag-rag) knew, other and more extraordinary changes were going on; Titmouse might be growing at the rate of half an inch a-day, and soon stand before ...

— Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. • Samuel Warren

... 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 archaeological ...

— St. Elmo • Augusta J. Evans

... can't deny them, for who acts as if he ever heard of them before. Now, if they do know them, why the plague don't they regulate their timepieces by them? If they did, matrimony wouldn't make such an everlastin' transmogrification of folks as it ...

— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Words linked to "Transmogrification" : transmogrify, translation, transformation