'Incarnation' definitions:
Definition of 'incarnation'
From: WordNet
noun
A new personification of a familiar idea; "the embodiment of hope"; "the incarnation of evil"; "the very avatar of cunning" [syn: embodiment, incarnation, avatar]
noun
(Christianity) the Christian doctrine of the union of God and man in the person of Jesus Christ
noun
Time passed in a particular bodily form; "he believes that his life will be better in his next incarnation"
noun
The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. [syn: personification, incarnation]
Definition of 'Incarnation'
From: GCIDE
- Incarnation \In`car*na"tion\, n. [F. incarnation, LL. incarnatio.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Theol.) The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act. [1913 Webster]
- She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead. --Jeffrey. [1913 Webster]
- The very incarnation of selfishness. --F. W. Robertson. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Med.) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Incarnation'
From: Easton
- 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.
Synonyms of 'incarnation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acting,
- angelophany,
- aping,
- apparition,
- appearance,
- appearing,
- arising,
- avatar,
- characterization,
- Christophany,
- 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,
- Satanophany,
- showing,
- showing forth,
- substantiation,
- theophany,
- transmigration,
- unfolding,
- unfoldment,
- wild