incarnation
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incarnation¹
- /ˌɪŋ.kɑːˈneɪ.ʃən/ UK
- /ˌɪŋ.kɑɹˈneɪ.ʃən/ US
Rhymes with -eɪʃən
Where it comes from
From Middle English incarnacion, borrowed from Old French incarnacion, from Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin incarnatio, from Late Latin incarnari (“to be made flesh”).
noun incarnations
- An incarnate being or form. She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead.
- A version or iteration (of something). 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, elabora
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A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
Similar: avatar
- An assumption of human form or nature.
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A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like.
The leading dancer is the incarnation of grace.
Similar: embodiment, instantiation, realization
- The act of incarnating.
- The state of being incarnated.
- A rosy or red colour; flesh (the colour); carnation.
- The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.
Incarnation²
proper noun
- 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.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: embodiment, personification, avatar, reincarnation, example, manifestation, form, guarantor, symptomatic, face, epitome, representation, materialization, realization, concretization, externalization
Translations
Every language
noun incarnate being or form
| Español | encarnación |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 화신 hwasin |
| 日本語 | 化身 keshin |
| 中文 | 化身 huàshēn |
| हिन्दी | अवतार avtār |
| Português | encarnação |
| Français | incarnation |
| Deutsch | Verkörperung |
| Italiano | incarnazione |
| Ελληνικά | ενσάρκωση ensárkosi |
| Русский | воплоще́ние voploščénije, олицетворе́ние olicetvorénije |
| العربية | الحُلُول al-ḥulūl |
noun living being embodying a deity or spirit
| Français | incarnation |
|---|---|
| Ελληνικά | ενσάρκωση ensárkosi |
| Русский | воплоще́ние voploščénije |
| العربية | الحُلُول al-ḥulūl |
| עברית | התגלמות |
noun assumption of human form or nature
| Ελληνικά | ενσάρκωση ensárkosi |
|---|---|
| Русский | воплоще́ние voploščénije |
| العربية | التَّجَسُّد at-tajassud, التَّأَنُّس at-taʔannus |
noun person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like
| Français | incarnation |
|---|---|
| Ελληνικά | ενσάρκωση ensárkosi |
| Русский | воплоще́ние voploščénije, олицетворе́ние olicetvorénije |
noun act of incarnating
| Ελληνικά | ενσάρκωση ensárkosi |
|---|---|
| Русский | воплоще́ние voploščénije |
noun state of being incarnated
| Ελληνικά | ενσάρκωση ensárkosi |
|---|---|
| Русский | воплоще́ние voploščénije |
name doctrine that the second person of the Trinity assumed human form in the person of Jesus Christ and is fully divine and fully human
| Français | incarnation |
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title = {incarnation},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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