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Embody   /ɪmbˈɑdi/   Listen
Embody

verb
(past & past part. embodied; pres. part. embodying)  (Written also imbody)
1.
Represent in bodily form.  Synonyms: body forth, incarnate, substantiate.  "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"
2.
Represent, as of a character on stage.  Synonyms: be, personify.
3.
Represent or express something abstract in tangible form.





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"Embody" Quotes from Famous Books



... the people want is jest correct idees; "Old Timbertoes," you see 's a creed it 's safe to be quite bold on, There 's nothin' in 't the other side can any ways git hold on; It 's a good tangible idee, a sutthin' to embody Thet valooable class o' men who look thru brandy-toddy; It gives a Party Platform tu, jest level with the mind Of all right-thinkin', honest folks thet mean to go it blind; Then there air other good hooraws to dror on ez ...
— The Biglow Papers • James Russell Lowell
... these specimens of Indian gallantry, which only too well embody the code of the red man's habits. Doubtless the heart has its influence among even the most savage people, for nature has not put into our breasts feelings and passions to be discarded by one's own expedients, or wants. But no advocate of the ...
— Oak Openings • James Fenimore Cooper
... existed in every age and among almost every people. Charon and his boat might be the means of conveyance. Or the believer, dying in battle for the creed of the Faithful, might expect to wake up in a celestial harem peopled with Houris. Or the belief might embody the matchless horrors painted by Dante; his dolorous city with the terrible inscription over its entrance-gate: ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 • Various
... Review to the ridicule of the whole bar; but it may be made something of, and I like the subject. I had a long and amusing talk with the Chancellor the night before last, on his own and his brother's judgments; I wish I had time to embody ...
— A Publisher and His Friends • Samuel Smiles
... have to plead guilty. I may—I cannot tell—have unduly emphasized some points, and not put enough emphasis on others. I may be convicted—nothing is more likely—of many verbal inconsistencies. But let the arguments I have done my best to embody be taken as a whole, and they have a vitality that does not depend upon me; nor can they be proved false, because my ignorance or weakness may here or there have associated them with, or illustrated them by, a falsehood. ...
— Is Life Worth Living? • William Hurrell Mallock


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