incarnation
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See also Incarnation
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English incarnacion, from Old French incarnacion, from Medieval Latin incarnatio, from Late Latin incarnari (“to be made flesh”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun[edit]
incarnation (plural incarnations)
- An incarnate being or form.
- Jeffrey
- She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead.
- F. W. Robertson
- The very incarnation of selfishness.
- Jeffrey
- 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.
- (obsolete) A rosy or red colour; flesh colour; carnation.
- (medicine, obsolete) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.
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Translations[edit]
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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External links[edit]
- incarnation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- incarnation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
French[edit]
Noun[edit]
incarnation f (plural incarnations)
- embodiment (entity typifying an abstraction)
