incarnation

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English incarnacion, borrowed from Old French incarnacion, from Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin incarnatio, from Late Latin incarnari (“to be made flesh”). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˌɪŋ.kɑːˈneɪ.ʃən/ (US) IPA(key): /ˌɪŋ.kɑɹˈneɪ.ʃən/ Rhymes: -eɪʃən === Noun === incarnation (countable and uncountable, plural incarnations) An incarnate being or form. 1815, Francis Jeffrey, Wordsworth's White Doe (review) She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead. A version or iteration (of something). A living being embodying a deity or spirit. Synonym: avatar An assumption of human form or nature. A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like. Synonyms: embodiment, instantiation, realization The act of incarnating. The state of being incarnated. (obsolete) A rosy or red colour; flesh (the colour); carnation. (medicine, obsolete) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== carnal incarnate reincarnate reincarnation ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== “incarnation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “incarnation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French incarnation, from Old French incarnacion, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarnātiōnem. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɛ̃.kaʁ.na.sjɔ̃/ === Noun === incarnation f (plural incarnations) embodiment (entity typifying an abstraction) ==== Related terms ==== incarner ==== Descendants ==== → Turkish: enkarnasyon === Further reading === “incarnation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Middle French == === Etymology === From Old French incarnacion, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarnātiō, incarnātiōnem. === Noun === incarnation f (plural incarnations) (Christianity) Incarnation. Specifically, the incarnation of God in the form of Jesus Christ. ==== Descendants ==== French: incarnation === References === incarnation on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)