[in-kahr-ney-shuh
n] 
| 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. |
| in·car·na·tion (ĭn'kär-nā'shən) n.
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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.
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.