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incarnation

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An incarnate being or form.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In Christian theology , the doctrine of the Incarnation holds that Jesus , the preexistent divine Logos ( Koine Greek for "Word") and the second hypostasis of the Trinity , God the Son and Son of the Father , taking on a human body and human nature, "was ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incarnation \In`car*na"tion\, n. [F. incarnation, LL. incarnatio.] 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. (Theol.) The union of the second person of the Godhead ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE early ▪ Workbench first appeared in an earlier incarnation as an application called Intercycle from now defunct company Interport Inc. ▪ He combines a little of Clark Gable with a whisper of Cary Grant's early incarnation ...

Usage examples of incarnation.

I had ever heard, yet I did not doubt that his addled sermonette was an incarnation of that very lecture.

In them a religious and realistic idea takes the place of the moralism of the Apologists, namely, the deifying of the human race through the incarnation of the Son of God.

First, because this is befitting to the cause of the Incarnation, considered on the part of God.

Secondly, this is befitting to the cause of the Incarnation, on the part of the nature assumed.

For people would have thought the Incarnation to be unreal, and, out of sheer spite, would have crucified Him before the proper time.

He should not begin to work wonders from His early years: for men would have deemed the Incarnation to be imaginary and would have crucified Him before the proper time.

But, when the Christian religion was represented as the belief in the incarnation of God and as the sure hope of the deification of man, a speculation that had originally never got beyond the fringe of religious knowledge was made the central point of the system and the simple content of the Gospel was obscured.

The incarnation of the Word, they would say, was a trifle for God, and therefore easy to understand, and the resurrection was so comprehensible that it did not appear to them wonderful, because, as God cannot die, Jesus Christ was naturally certain to rise again.

He was the incarnation of the Continental ideal of the polished cold Englishman, and had the air of a diplomate such as this country sends to foreign Courts to praise or blame, to declare friendship or war with the same calm suavity and imperturbable politeness.

In its most doctrinaire incarnation, this view demands that justices discern exactly what the Framers thought about the question under consideration and simply follow that intention in resolving the case before them.

The Great One would not approve of murder in cold blood, and it would be an act of human dishonor, but Dom was not about to chance this new incarnation of Rychard getting his hands on Laris.

The great deception of Yakim Douan laid waste to the many Chezru images of glorious Transcendence, the process that the Chezru had considered as a passage of knowledge, the incarnation of a new God-Voice to be found among the children of Behren.

She went over it again, seeing it all in pictures, deciding how to sharpen a detail here and there with a fillip of metascent, trying to forget Durancy and his endless loop, hoping that she had expelled him from herself but fearing that she had not, that he was a part of her very cells forever, through endless incarnations.

The ekka followed, the pony loping to keep up, and if Jannath did not grow seasick from the pitching it must have been because he had been a sailor in a recent incarnation.

Whether or not the ka does have a memory during these times, we are concerned only with its incarnations, its enfleshed states.