incarnation
pronunciation
How to pronounce incarnation in British English:
UK [ˌɪnkɑ:ˈneɪʃn]
How to pronounce incarnation in American English:
US [ˌɪnkɑrˈneɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- a new personification of a familiar idea
- time passed in a particular bodily form
- the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
Word Origin
- incarnation (n.)
- c. 1300, "embodiment of God in the person of Christ," from Old French incarnacion (12c.), from Late Latin incarnationem (nominative incarnatio), "act of being made flesh" (used by Church writers especially of God in Christ), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin incarnare "to make flesh," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + caro (genitive carnis) "flesh" (see carnage). Glossed in Old English as inflæscnes, inlichomung.
Example
- 1. The latest incarnation of the winnipeg jets already provides some encouragement .
- 2. With its emphasis on bottom-up collaboration and the broad dissemination of knowledge , the online encyclopedia is in many ways an incarnation of the fundamental values of the web .
- 3. So bernard madoff was a prosecutor 's dream the hollywood incarnation of a white-collar criminal .
- 4. All this makes the robotic tuna 's new incarnation ever more reminiscent of the real thing .
- 5. There is in india a rival claimant to the incarnation , with some influential backers .