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