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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
embodiment
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
very
▪ She was, he thought, the very embodiment of bitterness.
▪ One day, a woman turned up who must have seemed the very embodiment of that nature he was tussling with daily.
▪ This house was the very embodiment of sleazy discomfort.
▪ She was the very embodiment of his desire for the unknown, the unknowable, the other.
■ VERB
become
▪ Presumably what he means is that at that point they will have lost their representative character and become embodiments of the divine.
▪ Women often become the embodiment of both the interesting and the insoluble questions in these areas.
▪ According to Gandhi, it is when symbols become fetishes and embodiments of the divine, that they might be construed as idols.
▪ Back in 1977, they became the living embodiment of everything that was wrong with rock'n'roll.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A firewall is an embodiment of this security policy.
▪ It constituted the institutional embodiment of proletarian unity and class consciousness.
▪ It was also a kind of Chartres Cathedral, a perfect embodiment of its genre.
▪ It was the living embodiment of his most passionate convictions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Embodiment

Embodiment \Em*bod"i*ment\, n.

  1. The act of embodying; the state of being embodied.

  2. That which embodies or is embodied; representation in a physical body; a completely organized system, like the body; as, the embodiment of courage, or of courtesy; the embodiment of true piety.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
embodiment

1824, from embody + -ment.

Wiktionary
embodiment

n. a physical entity typifying an abstraction

WordNet
embodiment
  1. n. a new personification of a familiar idea; "the embodiment of hope"; "the incarnation of evil"; "the very avatar of cunning" [syn: incarnation, avatar]

  2. a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept; "a circle was the embodiment of his concept of life" [syn: shape]

  3. giving concrete form to an abstract concept

Wikipedia
Embodiment

Embodied or embodiment may refer to:

in psychology and philosophy,

  • Embodied cognition (or the embodied mind thesis), a position in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind emphasizing the role that the body plays in shaping the mind
  • Embodied imagination, a therapeutic and creative form of working with dreams and memories

in computer science, robotics and artificial intelligence,

  • Embodied embedded cognition, a position in cognitive science stating that intelligent behaviour emerges from the interplay between brain, body and world
  • Embodied agent, in artificial intelligence, an intelligent agent that interacts with the environment through a physical body within that environment
  • Embodied cognitive science, an interdisciplinary field of research aiming to explain the mechanisms underlying intelligent behavior

in resource economics,

  • Embodied resource, the amount of resource used in the production, manufacture, use and disposal of a good or service.
  • Embodied energy, the quantity of energy required to manufacture, and supply to the point of use, a product, material or service
  • Embodied or virtual water, the water used in the production of a good or service

in physical theatre training,

  • Process of embodiment (physical theatre) the process of embodiment, the specific part of psychophysical actor training based on the embodied mind thesis that seeks to unite the imaginary separation of body and mind

in music,

  • Embodied music cognition, a concept within musicology
  • Embodiment 12:14, a Christian Australian metalcore band
  • Embodiment: Collapsing Under the Weight of God, the third studio album by the band Sculptured

in law,

  • a specific, disclosed example of how an inventive concept, that is more generally stated elsewhere in the disclosure of a patent application or patent, can be put into practice; see Claim (patent).

in social epidemiology,

  • Embodiment, the development of a body through the change of a certain environment or condition, this includes geographical location, socioeconomic status, etc.
  • Embodiment, the change or nurturing of a natural biological entity induced by their specific environment
  • Embodiment, the telling of a body's story that cannot be refuted from the environment in which it was developed in; which also oftentimes refutes popular opinion and expresses changes that are unable to be verbalized

Usage examples of "embodiment".

According to Aesop slow but steady won the race, and Metellus Pius was the embodiment of slow but steady.

Eli Camperdown, who not long since had seemed the embodiment of strength and power, was now emaciated, wan and fragile-a caricature of his former self.

In manner and appearance, the Columban brother might almost have been the living embodiment of those early times, his white habit and Celtic tonsure linking him with his inheritance of Druid spirituality, which had seen the coming of the teachings of Christ as fulfillment and extension of a Trinitarian concept long honored in their traditions.

Early this morning, Anna reported, Kinnor had changed from an alert if difficult baby to the very embodiment of tension.

There was no doubt that the Mescalero saw the General as the physical embodiment of evil, and that his corpse would give them a greater will to fight against the whites.

In the multidimensional Plotinian Kosmos, the One gives birth to the Manyto the Alland the All return to the One, with Each individual a perfect embodiment of the infinite One itself.

We were the embodiment of a fiery Sapphic romance gone awry under the merciless strictures of Victorian society.

System as the embodiment of soullessness, and, insofar as he had ever been known to show emotion or feeling before any undergraduate, he seemed to glory in his repute of being the most pitilessly rigid disciplinarian that Earth had ever known.

If Tartuffe can be seen as an embodiment of religion, or of a certain kind of religion, the significance of his appeal to Orgon becomes apparent.

Worse yet, supposing she asks for Davits and he still stands there like a video extra or something elsesay, some yellowbellied embodiment named Cringe?

Not all of Heaven looked like that, of course, but this was West Heaven, the better side of Paradise, where the archangels lived and where the Spiritual Embodiments had summer places.

Rupakaya, its embodiment or embeddedness in the entire world of Form, and these merely dissociated and disengaged aspects of Enlightenment thought have to be teased apart from its true intuitions.

First her dreams, then her broodings began to be haunted with sweet embodiments.

A unique scene, representative of the many colorful situations that youthful friendship could involve in a rural district amid the unchanging embodiments of country life -- peasant, farmhand, pastor, schoolmaster, postmaster, peddler, cheesemaker, dairy co-operative inspector, apprentice forester, and village idiot -- perpetuated itself for many years without being photographed: somewhere in the dunes, with his back to the woods and their aisles, Amsel is at work.

Full as my mind was of the wild and sometimes fearful tales of a Highland nursery, fear never entered my mind by the eyes, nor, when I brooded over tales of terror, and fancied new and yet more frightful embodiments of horror, did I shudder at any imaginable spectacle, or tremble lest the fancy should become fact, and from behind the whin-bush or the elder-hedge should glide forth the tall swaying form of the Boneless.