incarnation
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[edit] Etymology
< Middle English incarnacion < Old French incarnatiun < Mediaeval Latin incarnatio < Late Latin incarnari (“‘to be made flesh’”); see incarnate.
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
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incarnation (plural incarnations)
- An incarnate being or form.
- A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
- An assumption of human form or nature.
- (theology) the Incarnation The doctrine that the second person of the Trinity assumed human form in the person of Jesus Christ and is fully divine and fully human.
- A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like
- The leading dancer is the incarnation of grace.
- The act of incarnating.
- The state of being incarnated.
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[edit] External links
- “incarnation” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- "incarnation" at The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.

