Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of incarnating.
- noun The condition of being incarnated.
- noun Christianity The doctrine that the Son of God was conceived in the womb of Mary and that Jesus is true God and true man.
- noun A bodily manifestation of a supernatural being.
- noun One who is believed to personify a given abstract quality or idea.
- noun A period of time passed in a given bodily form or condition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of incarnating or clothing with flesh; the act of assuming flesh or a human body and the nature of man; the state of being incarnated.
- noun In surgery, the process whereby a wound heals, the affected part becoming filled with new flesh; granulation.
- noun A representation in an incarnate form; a personification; a visible embodiment; a distinct exemplification in form or act.
- noun The color of flesh; carnation.
- noun In botany, the carnation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun (Theol.) The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ.
- noun An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act.
- noun obsolete A rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation.
- noun (Med.) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
incarnate being orform . - noun A living
being embodying adeity orspirit . - noun An assumption of
human form or nature. - noun A person or thing regarded as
embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like - noun The act of incarnating.
- noun The state of being incarnated.
- noun obsolete A
rosy orred colour; flesh colour;carnation . - noun medicine, obsolete The process of
healing wounds and filling the part with newflesh ;granulation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
- noun (Christianity) the Christian doctrine of the union of God and man in the person of Jesus Christ
- noun a new personification of a familiar idea
- noun time passed in a particular bodily form
Etymologies
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Examples
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Those flowers are a pun, carrying as they do the root of the word incarnation within their name.
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My atheist friend used the term incarnation to point to what he called the miracle of awareness.
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My atheist friend used the term incarnation to point to what he called the "miracle of awareness."
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This book, at least in this incarnation is around 500 pages long, and a lot of the middle is taken up with other threads, that while tangentially interesting are nowhere near as good as the parts featuring Cormac and his directly related allies themselves.
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First performed in 1991, with a dazzlingly white-and-black skewed set, La Bete's current incarnation is in a towering library.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: La Bete, A Life in the Theater, Lady Rizo
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First performed in 1991, with a dazzlingly white-and-black skewed set, La Bete's current incarnation is in a towering library.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: La Bete, A Life in the Theater, Lady Rizo
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The judge was making the point that the Pledge, in its current incarnation, is only about 50 – 60 years old and that the language “under God” was inserted at a particular time in response to concerns of that time and that the Pledge is not some sacrosanct invocation from the founders.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin
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First performed in 1991, with a dazzlingly white-and-black skewed set, La Bete's current incarnation is in a towering library.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: La Bete, A Life in the Theater, Lady Rizo
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Squatting somewhere between MGMT, The Inbetweeners and Derek Zoolander, this modern incarnation is all mouth and skinny trousers.
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Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The Eagle in its most recent, post-Giuliani incarnation is still at 554 West 28th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues in a relatively quiet corner of Chelsea in New York.
mattaustin commented on the word incarnation
I found his word in an article called " The Path of The Drifter" by Nathan Myers. It is used in the sentence as followed, " Falling in love with this new place, this new mind, and this new incarnation of his surfing."
September 22, 2010