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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024in•car•na•tion /ˌɪnkɑrˈneɪʃən/USA pronunciation n. - [countable* usually singular;
usually: the + ~] a person or thing personified:That dancer is the incarnation of beauty and grace.
the act or state of being given a bodily form:[countable]She thought they had known each other in a previous incarnation. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024in•car•na•tion (in′kär nā′shən),USA pronunciation n. - an incarnate being or form.
- a living being embodying a deity or spirit.
- assumption of human form or nature.
- Religion the Incarnation, (sometimes l.c.)[Theol.]the doctrine that the second person of the Trinity assumed human form in the person of Jesus Christ and is completely both God and man.
- a person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like:The leading dancer is the incarnation of grace.
- the act of incarnating.
- state of being incarnated.
- Late Latin incarnātiōn- (stem of incarnātiō) equivalent. to incarnāt(us) incarnate + -iōn- -ion
- Middle English incarnacion 1250–1300
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