Incarnation

UK: /ˌɪnkɑːˈneɪʃən/ US: /ˌɪnkɑrˈneɪʃən/ ,(in′kär nā′shən)

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Incarnation / ˌɪnkɑːˈneɪʃən/ noun

1. the assuming of a human body by the Son of God

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in•car•na•tion /ˌɪnkɑrˈneɪʃən/   n. 

1. [countable* usually singular;
   usually: the + ~] a person or thing personified:
   That dancer is the incarnation of beauty and grace.
2. the act or state of being given a bodily form:
   [countable] She thought they had known each other in a previous incarnation.

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in•car•na•tion  (in′kär nā′shən), n. 

1. an incarnate being or form.
2. a living being embodying a deity or spirit.
3. assumption of human form or nature.
4. Religion the Incarnation, (sometimes l.c.)[Theol.] the doctrine that the second person of the Trinity assumed human form in the person of Jesus Christ and is completely both God and man.
5. a person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like:
   The leading dancer is the incarnation of grace.
6. the act of incarnating.
7. state of being incarnated.

• Late Latin incarnātiōn- (stem of incarnātiō) equivalent. to incarnāt(us) incarnate + -iōn- -ion
• Middle English incarnacion 1250–1300

in′car•na′tion•al, adj. 

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incarnation / ˌɪnkɑːˈneɪʃən/ noun

1. the act of manifesting or state of being manifested in bodily form, esp human form
2. a bodily form assumed by a god, etc
3. a person or thing that typifies or represents some quality, idea, etc