Incarnation

Quick meaning: Incarnation is a noun meaning An incarnate being or form.

Meaning

An incarnate being or form.

More Meanings

1. A version or iteration (of something).
2. A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
3. An assumption of human form or nature.
4. A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like.
5. The act of incarnating.
6. The state of being incarnated.
7. (obsolete) A rosy or red colour; flesh (the colour); carnation.

Example Sentences

The leading dancer is the incarnation of grace.

She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead.

Robespierre, the very incarnation of lustful and deadly Vengeance, stands silently by.

The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.

Word Forms

• incarnations

Synonyms for incarnation

Depending on context, synonyms include avatar, embodiment, instantiation, realization, personification.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include embodiment, personification, avatar, reincarnation, example, manifestation.

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