(~s)
1.
If you say that someone is the ~ 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 ~ of evil...
= embodiment
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2.
An ~ is an instance of being alive on earth in a particular form. Some religions believe that people have several ~s in different forms.
She began recalling a series of previous ~s...
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