incarnation

See also: Incarnation

English

Etymology

From Middle English incarnacion, borrowed from Old French incarnacion, from Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin incarnatio, from Late Latin incarnari (“to be made flesh”).

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

incarnation (countable and uncountable, plural incarnations)

  1. An incarnate being or form.
    • Jeffrey
      She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead.
    • F. W. Robertson
      The very incarnation of selfishness.
    • 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
      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.
  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.
    The leading dancer is the incarnation of grace.
  5. The act of incarnating.
  6. The state of being incarnated.
  7. (obsolete) A rosy or red colour; flesh colour; carnation.
  8. (medicine, obsolete) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

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French

Etymology

From Middle French incarnation, from Old French incarnacion, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarnātiō, incarnātiōnem.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɛ̃.kaʁ.na.sjɔ̃/
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Noun

incarnation f (plural incarnations)

  1. embodiment (entity typifying an abstraction)

Further reading

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French incarnacion, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarnātiō, incarnātiōnem.

Noun

incarnation f (plural incarnations)

  1. (Christianity) Incarnation. Specifically, the incarnation of God in the form of Jesus Christ.

Descendants

References
  • incarnation on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) (in French)
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