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in⋅car⋅na⋅tion

[in-kahr-ney-shuhn]
–noun
1. an incarnate being or form.
2. a living being embodying a deity or spirit.
3. assumption of human form or nature.
4. the Incarnation, (sometimes lowercase) Theology. the doctrine that the second person of the Trinity assumed human form in the person of Jesus Christ and is completely both God and man.
5. a person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like: The leading dancer is the incarnation of grace.
6. the act of incarnating.
7. state of being incarnated.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME incarnacion < LL incarnātiōn- (s. of incarnātiō) equiv. to incarnāt(us) incarnate + -iōn- -ion


in⋅car⋅na⋅tion⋅al, adjective
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Incarnation

The Christian belief that the Son, the second person of the Trinity, was incarnated, or made flesh, in the person of Jesus, in order to save the world from original sin.

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Word Origin & History

incarnation 
1297, "embodiment of God in the person of Christ," from O.Fr. incarnation (12c.), from L.L. incarnationem (nom. incarnatio), "act of being made flesh" (used by Church writers esp. of God in Christ), from L. incarnatus, pp. of incarnare "to make flesh," from in- "in" + caro (gen. carnis) "flesh."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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