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Synonyms for transmutation

the process or result of changing from one appearance, state, or phase to another

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Synonyms for transmutation

an act that changes the form or character or substance of something

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(physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment)

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If, like his contemporaries, Thoreau had difficulty thinking evolution from within progressionism, by the time of Walden "s extensive "remaking," beginning "sometime in 1852," he had also become deeply interested in the transmutationist account of a natural history that included humankind.
First, the "savage delight" and desire to internalize the "wildness" represented by the woodchuck "stealing across my path," described at the beginning of "Higher Laws," introduces a transmutationist narrative that runs counter to the more visible progressionist one (210).