Incarnation \In`car*na"tion\, n. [F. incarnation, LL.
   incarnatio.]
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   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.
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   2. (Theol.) The union of the second person of the Godhead
      with manhood in Christ.
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   3. An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a
      reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in
      person or act.
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            She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious
            dead.                                 --Jeffrey.
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            The very incarnation of selfishness.  --F. W.
                                                  Robertson.
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   4. A rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation. [Obs.]
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   5. (Med.) The process of healing wounds and filling the part
      with new flesh; granulation.
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	incarnation
    n 1: a new personification of a familiar idea; "the embodiment
         of hope"; "the incarnation of evil"; "the very avatar of
         cunning" [syn: embodiment, incarnation, avatar]
    2: (Christianity) the Christian doctrine of the union of God and
       man in the person of Jesus Christ
    3: time passed in a particular bodily form; "he believes that
       his life will be better in his next incarnation"
    4: the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract
       ideas etc. [syn: personification, incarnation]

	

	73 Moby Thesaurus words for "incarnation":
   Christophany, Satanophany, acting, angelophany, aping, apparition,
   appearance, appearing, arising, avatar, characterization, coming,
   coming into being, coming-forth, concretization, corporealization,
   disclosure, dissemination, dumb show, embodiment, emergence,
   enacting, enactment, epiphany, evidence, evincement, exposure,
   expression, forthcoming, imitation, impersonation, incorporation,
   indication, issuance, manifestation, masquerade, materialization,
   materializing, metempsychosis, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming,
   occurrence, opening, pantomime, pantomiming, performance,
   performing, personation, personification, playing, pneumatophany,
   portrayal, posing, presentation, proof, publication, realization,
   reembodiment, reification, reincarnation, revelation, rise, rising,
   showing, showing forth, substantiation, theophany, transmigration,
   unfolding, unfoldment, wild

	

	Incarnation
   that act of grace whereby Christ took our human nature into
   union with his Divine Person, became man. Christ is both God and
   man. Human attributes and actions are predicated of him, and he
   of whom they are predicated is God. A Divine Person was united
   to a human nature (Acts 20:28; Rom. 8:32; 1 Cor. 2:8; Heb.
   2:11-14; 1 Tim. 3:16; Gal. 4:4, etc.). The union is
   hypostatical, i.e., is personal; the two natures are not mixed
   or confounded, and it is perpetual.