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Incarnation   /ɪnkˈɑrnˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Incarnation

noun
1.
A new personification of a familiar idea.  Synonyms: avatar, embodiment.  "The incarnation of evil" , "The very avatar of cunning"
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.
4.
The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc..  Synonym: personification.



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... of her on whose bosom he nestled in infancy, and at whose knee he learned his life's first lessons. We are sure of finding here the secret of the man's greatness. When the time drew nigh for the incarnation of the Son of God, we may be sure that into the soul of the woman who should be his mother, who should impart her own life to him, who should teach him his first lessons, and prepare him for his holy mission, God put the loveliest and the best ...
— Personal Friendships of Jesus • J. R. Miller

... below, had the credit or discredit of attracting some shadow of ecclesiastical censure. This Matteo Palmieri—two dim figures move under that name in contemporary history—was the reputed author of a poem, still unedited, La Citta Divina, which represented the human race as an incarnation of those angels who, in the revolt of Lucifer, were neither for God nor for his enemies, a fantasy of that earlier Alexandrian philosophy, about which the Florentine intellect in that century was so curious. Botticelli's picture may have been only one of those familiar compositions in ...
— Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers • Esther Singleton

... Baudelaire to the enigmatically perverse Decadent of America; he delights, sooner than all the world, in the astonishing, unbalanced, unachieved genius of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. Finally, it is in Stephane Mallarme that he finds the incarnation of 'the decadence of a literature, irreparably affected in its organism, weakened in its ideas by age, exhausted by the excesses of syntax, sensitive only to the curiosity which fevers sick people, and ...
— Figures of Several Centuries • Arthur Symons

... the Incarnation, at Garden City, N. Y., the memorial of Mrs. Cornelia M. Stewart to her husband, Alexander T. Stewart, was opened April 9, 1885, by impressive religious ceremonies. At precisely 11 o'clock the chimes in the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 • Various

... (oh, how sweetly rayed with smiles!) and the common figure (gentle, unobtrusive, full of delicate attentions)—yes, notwithstanding all these unheroinals, no one who had a heart himself could look upon Maria without pleasure and approval. She was the very incarnation of cheerfulness, kindness, and love: you forgot the greenish colour of those eyes which looked so tenderly at you, and so often-times were dimmed with tears of unaffected pity; her smile, at any rate, was most enchanting, the very sunshine of an amiable mind; her lips dropped blessings; her brow ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper


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