transmogrifications

noun

plural of transmogrification
as in transformations

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  1. transformations
  2. metamorphoses
Noun
  • The Homeric text is full of transformations, shape-shifting and super-speed, alongside meticulous labor and elaborate rites; the movie is neither dazzling nor precise.
    — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
  • The sequence featuring Circe, the sorcerer who turns Odysseus’s men into pigs, might be the most disturbing of them all, not so much for what’s shown as for what’s implied, as the men’s body-horror-like transformations occur in tight shots.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 July 2026
Definition of transformations
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  • His fingerprints are all over the 21st-century Big Inventive Novel, with its sentient raindrops (Elif Shafak), its melodramatic families (Kiran Desai), its metamorphoses of race (Mohsin Hamid) and history (Marlon James).
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
  • My son had to work to follow Jack’s metamorphoses, to track the relationship between the spells and their consequences.
    — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Definition of metamorphoses
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