What does incarnation mean?
Definitions for incarnation
ˌɪn kɑrˈneɪ ʃənin·car·na·tion
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Princeton's WordNet
embodiment, incarnation, avatarnoun
a new personification of a familiar idea
"the embodiment of hope"; "the incarnation of evil"; "the very avatar of cunning"
Incarnationnoun
(Christianity) the Christian doctrine of the union of God and man in the person of Jesus Christ
incarnationnoun
time passed in a particular bodily form
"he believes that his life will be better in his next incarnation"
personification, incarnationnoun
the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
Wiktionary
incarnationnoun
An incarnate being or form.
incarnationnoun
A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
incarnationnoun
An assumption of human form or nature.
incarnationnoun
A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like
The leading dancer is the incarnation of grace.
incarnationnoun
The act of incarnating.
incarnationnoun
The state of being incarnated.
Incarnationnoun
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.
Etymology: From incarnacion, from incarnacion, from incarnatio, from incarnari.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Incarnationnoun
Etymology: incarnation, Fr. from incarnate.
We must beware we exclude not the nature of God from incarnation, and so make the son of God incarnate not to be very God. Richard Hooker.
Upon the annunciation, or our Lady-day, meditate on the incarnation of our blessed Saviour. Jeremy Taylor, Guide to Devotion.
The pulsation under the cicatrix proceeded from the too lax incarnation of the wound. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.
ChatGPT
incarnation
Incarnation generally refers to a person who embodies or exemplifies a particular quality or concept. In religious context, it refers to the embodiment of a deity or spirit in some earthly form, like in Christianity where Jesus Christ is considered the incarnation of God. Incarnation can also refer to a concrete or actual form of an abstract concept or quality.
Webster Dictionary
Incarnationnoun
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
Incarnationnoun
the union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ
Incarnationnoun
an incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act
Incarnationnoun
a rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation
Incarnationnoun
the process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation
Etymology: [F. incarnation, LL. incarnatio.]
Wikidata
Incarnation
Incarnation literally means embodied in flesh or taking on flesh. It refers to the conception and birth of a sentient creature who is the material manifestation of an entity, god or force whose original nature is immaterial. In its religious context the word is used to mean the descent from Heaven of a god, or divine being in human/animal form on Earth.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Incarnation
the humanisation of the Divine in the person of Christ, a doctrine vehemently opposed in the early times of the Church by both Jews and Gnostics, by the former as inconsistent with the greatness of God, and by the latter as inconsistent with the inbred depravity of man.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of incarnation in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of incarnation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of incarnation in a Sentence
Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.
I allowed you to destroy me, my self-confidence, my ego, my identity as a human being and as a man. for years i was a shadow of my former self. the pain you caused was brutal and intense but i have a new life and a new incarnation and you’re hardly worth thinking about anymore and being free at last of your clutches, I have a new world to look forward to.
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Most of these kids are too young to have seen the Dead in our earlier incarnation, it's a chance for us, you know, to dedicate ourselves to transporting them.
Merkel is seen as the incarnation of the refugee problem, she did not see the consequences of her refugee policy.
I'm so excited to be returning to Discovery to work with these kids on a new incarnation of the show I love so much, to be able to confront them with great questions and the resources to answer them is such a dream. Helping to inspire future scientists and engineers is a mission I share with Discovery.
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