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incarnation

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1. incarnation - Noun

2. Incarnation - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ.

An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act.

A rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation.

The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention. Edith Sitwell

Human perception is literally incarnation. Marshall McLuhan

When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation - albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware - of its own best hopes. George Steiner

I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the Incarnation. Gerard Manley Hopkins

The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself. Peter Abelard

Today's beneficiary is the incarnation of his preexisting well-doer; the fate of one's next existence lies in his existence today. Chinese Proverb

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