Incarnation \In`car*na"tion\, n. [F. incarnation, LL.
incarnatio.]
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1. 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.
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2. (Theol.) The union of the second person of the Godhead
with manhood in Christ.
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3. An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a
reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in
person or act.
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She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious
dead. --Jeffrey.
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The very incarnation of selfishness. --F. W.
Robertson.
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4. A rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation. [Obs.]
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5. (Med.) The process of healing wounds and filling the part
with new flesh; granulation.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
incarnation
n 1: a new personification of a familiar idea; "the embodiment of
hope"; "the incarnation of evil"; "the very avatar of
cunning" [syn: embodiment, avatar]
2: (Christianity) the Christian doctrine of the union of God
and man in the person of Jesus Christ
3: time passed in a particular bodily form; "he believes that
his life will be better in his next incarnation"
4: the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract
ideas etc. [syn: personification]
WordNet (r) 2.0
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "incarnation":
Christophany, Satanophany, acting, angelophany, aping, apparition,
appearance, appearing, arising, avatar, characterization, coming,
coming into being, coming-forth, concretization, corporealization,
disclosure, dissemination, dumb show, embodiment, emergence,
enacting, enactment, epiphany, evidence, evincement, exposure,
expression, forthcoming, imitation, impersonation, incorporation,
indication, issuance, manifestation, masquerade, materialization,
materializing, metempsychosis, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming,
occurrence, opening, pantomime, pantomiming, performance,
performing, personation, personification, playing, pneumatophany,
portrayal, posing, presentation, proof, publication, realization,
reembodiment, reification, reincarnation, revelation, rise, rising,
showing, showing forth, substantiation, theophany, transmigration,
unfolding, unfoldment, wild
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Incarnation
that act of grace whereby Christ took our human nature into
union with his Divine Person, became man. Christ is both God and
man. Human attributes and actions are predicated of him, and he
of whom they are predicated is God. A Divine Person was united
to a human nature (Acts 20:28; Rom. 8:32; 1 Cor. 2:8; Heb.
2:11-14; 1 Tim. 3:16; Gal. 4:4, etc.). The union is
hypostatical, i.e., is personal; the two natures are not mixed
or confounded, and it is perpetual.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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