incarnation

Definition

An incarnate being or form.

Etymology

From Middle English incarnacion, borrowed from Old French incarnacion, from Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin incarnatio, from Late Latin incarnari (“to be made flesh”).

Example Sentences

• "She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead."
• "She had cast off the terror of the leaping flame, the cold power of judgment that was even now being done, and the wise sadness of the tombs - cast them off and put them behind her, like the white shroud she wore, and now stood out the incarnation of lovely tempting womanhood, made more perfect - and in a way more spiritual - than ever woman was before."
• "Robespierre, the very incarnation of lustful and deadly Vengeance, stands silently by.."

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