incarnation
See also: Incarnation
English
Etymology
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From Middle English incarnacion, borrowed from Old French incarnacion, from Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin incarnatio, from Late Latin incarnari (“to be made flesh”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
incarnation (countable and uncountable, 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.
- 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
- The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
- 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
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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Further reading
- “incarnation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “incarnation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French
Etymology
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From Middle French incarnation, from Old French incarnacion, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarnātiō, incarnātiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
incarnation f (plural incarnations)
- embodiment (entity typifying an abstraction)
Related terms
Further reading
- “incarnation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French incarnacion, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarnātiō, incarnātiōnem.
Noun
incarnation f (plural incarnations)
- (Christianity) Incarnation. Specifically, the incarnation of God in the form of Jesus Christ.
Descendants
- French: incarnation
References
- incarnation on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
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