incarnation
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See also Incarnation
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English incarnacion, from Old French incarnacion, from Medieval Latin incarnatio, from Late Latin incarnari (“to be made flesh”).
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
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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.
- 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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incarnate being or form
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living being embodying a deity or spirit
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assumption of human form or nature
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person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like
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act of incarnating
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state of being incarnated
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[edit] External links
- incarnation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- incarnation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[edit] French
[edit] Noun
incarnation f. (plural incarnations)
- embodiment (entity typifying an abstraction)
