Definition of "incarnation" []

• The act of incarnating. (noun)
• The condition of being incarnated. (noun)
• Christianity The doctrine that the Son of God was conceived in the womb of Mary and that Jesus is true God and true man. (noun)
• A bodily manifestation of a supernatural being. (noun)
• One who is believed to personify a given abstract quality or idea. (noun)

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• "Those flowers are a pun, carrying as they do the root of the word incarnation within their name."
• "My atheist friend used the term incarnation to point to what he called the “miracle of awareness."
• "My atheist friend used the term incarnation to point to what he called the "miracle of awareness.""