Sentence:  I think of him as of some <WSD>transmigratory</WSD> votary of Indian legend, who says, "Though I be dog, or jackal, or pismire, in the last rudiments of nature, under what integument or ferocity, I cleave to right, as the sure ladder that leads up to man and to God." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Of, pertaining to, or undergoing transmigration, as a soul from one body to another.