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incarnation

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in⋅car⋅na⋅tion

  [in-kahr-ney-shuhn]
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–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

Related forms:
in⋅car⋅na⋅tion⋅al, adjective
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in·car·na·tion   (ĭn'kär-nā'shən)   
n.  

    1. The act of incarnating.

    2. The condition of being incarnated.

  2. Incarnation Christianity The doctrine that the Son of God was conceived in the womb of Mary and that Jesus is true God and true man.

  3. A bodily manifestation of a supernatural being.

  4. One who is believed to personify a given abstract quality or idea.

  5. A period of time passed in a given bodily form or condition: hopes for a better life in another incarnation.

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Cultural Dictionary

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.

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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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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Bible Dictionary

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.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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