incarnation Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a new personification of a familiar idea
    embodiment; avatar.
    • the embodiment of hope
    • the incarnation of evil
    • the very avatar of cunning
  2. noun (Christianity) the Christian doctrine of the union of God and man in the person of Jesus Christ
  3. noun time passed in a particular bodily form
    • he believes that his life will be better in his next incarnation
  4. noun the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
    personification.

WordNet

In`car*na"tion noun
Etymology
F. incarnation, LL. incarnatio.
Definitions
  1. The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature.
  2. (Theol.) The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ.
  3. An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act.
    She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead. Jeffrey.
    The very incarnation of selfishness. F. W. Robertson.
  4. A rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation. Obs.
  5. (Med.) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

Webster 1913