Incarnation
WordNet
noun
(1) The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
(2) (Christianity) the Christian doctrine of the union of God and man in the person of Jesus Christ
(3) A new personification of a familiar idea
"The embodiment of hope"
"The incarnation of evil"
"The very avatar of cunning"
(4) Time passed in a particular bodily form
"He believes that his life will be better in his next incarnation"
WiktionaryText
Etymology
< < < < ; see incarnate.
Noun
- An incarnate being or form.
- A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
- An assumption of human form or nature.
- the Incarnation 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.
- A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like
- The leading dancer is the incarnation of grace.
- The act of incarnating.
- The state of being incarnated.
Noun
- embodiment (entity typifying an abstraction)