incarnation

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see also: Incarnation

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Noun

incarnation

1. An incarnate being or form.

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

   • The very incarnation of selfishness.

2. A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
3. An assumption of human form or nature.
4. A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like.

   The leading dancer is the incarnation of grace.

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

Related terms

• carnal
• incarnate
• reincarnate
• reincarnation

Translations

• French: incarnation
• German: Verkörperung
• Portuguese: encarnação
• Russian: воплоще́ние
• Spanish: encarnación

Translations

• French: incarnation
• Russian: воплоще́ние

Translations

• Russian: воплоще́ние

Translations

• French: incarnation
• Russian: воплоще́ние

Translations

• Russian: воплоще́ние

Translations

• Russian: воплоще́ние

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Incarnation

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Proper noun

1. (Christianity) 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.

Translations

• French: incarnation

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