Incarnation
[ɪnkɑː'neɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɪnkɑr'neʃən]
Definition
(noun.) (Christianity) the Christian doctrine of the union of God and man in the person of Jesus Christ.
(noun.) time passed in a particular bodily form; 'he believes that his life will be better in his next incarnation'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature.
(n.) The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ.
(n.) An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act.
(n.) A rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation.
(n.) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Incarnating.[2]. Hypostatic union.[3]. Impersonation, personification, exemplification, bodily manifestation.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Embodiment, impersonation
ANT:Disembodiment, spiritualization, abstraction
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Examples
- But how puny and harmless they now looked beside this huge and terrific incarnation of hate, of vengeance and of death. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- It was this: Jarndyce, in common with most other men I have known, is the incarnation of selfishness. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Ah, we all worship those old pagan gods, who were but the incarnation of our own desires. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Aphrodite arose from those waters, and she was but an incarnation of the beauty which meets the eye on all sides. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- You incarnation of sauciness,' said Mrs Wilfer, 'do you speak like that to me? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He was not like a man to her, he was an incarnation, a great phase of life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The earlier Pharaohs were not improbably regarded as incarnations of the dominant god. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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