INCARNATION


Meaning of INCARNATION in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪnkɑ:(r)neɪʃ(ə)n ]

( incarnations)

1.

If you say that someone is the incarnation of a particular quality, you mean that they represent that quality or are typical of it in an extreme form.

The regime was the very incarnation of evil...

= embodiment

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2.

An incarnation is an instance of being alive on earth in a particular form. Some religions believe that people have several incarnations in different forms.

She began recalling a series of previous incarnations...

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