| incarnation | 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. 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 colour; flesh colour; carnation. 5. <medicine> The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation. Origin: F. Incarnation, LL. Incarnatio. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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