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Incarnation

//ˌɪŋ.kɑɹˈneɪ.ʃən// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    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.
Noun
  1. 1
    An incarnate being or form. countable, uncountable

    "She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead."

  2. 2
    the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. wordnet
  3. 3
    A version or iteration (of something). countable, uncountable

    "It seems that they existed in some sort of previous incarnation of our universe, and use abstract terms to describe their existence, such as "feeding on concepts". They prepared for some sort of ascension, but then the Pattern came, which they describe at first as an all-consuming emptiness, elaborating by saying that anything that passed into it was torn asunder, subjected to a set of principles and order that grinds things down to nothing, in a process of which entropy is just one part."

  4. 4
    (Christianity) the Christian doctrine of the union of God and man in the person of Jesus Christ wordnet
  5. 5
    A living being embodying a deity or spirit. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    a new personification of a familiar idea wordnet
  2. 7
    An assumption of human form or nature. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    time passed in a particular bodily form wordnet
  4. 9
    A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like. countable, uncountable

    "The leading dancer is the incarnation of grace."

  5. 10
    The act of incarnating. countable, uncountable
  6. 11
    The state of being incarnated. countable, uncountable
  7. 12
    A rosy or red colour; flesh (the colour); carnation. countable, obsolete, uncountable
  8. 13
    The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation. countable, obsolete, uncountable

Etymology

From Middle English incarnacion, borrowed from Old French incarnacion, from Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin incarnatio, from Late Latin incarnari (“to be made flesh”).

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