embodiment
embodiment
Definition
em·bodi·ment (em bäd′i mənt, -bäd′ē-; im-)
noun
- an embodying or being embodied
- that in which something is embodied; concrete expression of some idea, quality, etc. she is the embodiment of virtue
embodiment
Synonyms
embodiment
n.
Incarnation
personification, manifestation, realization, concrete expression; see epitome 1, expression 2, representation.Incorporation
comprisal, composition, materialization; see inclusion.
embodiment
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- evil: In Platoon, he features the demonic sergeant Barns, who is a real embodiment of evil.
- wisdom: The book is arranged to follow the course of the inner life from its beginning to the fullest embodiment of wisdom.
- virtue: He had a daughter whom he adored greatly, for she was the very embodiment of virtue.
- spirit: He became a mild embodiment of the spirit of reason.
- sin: Any accountability to the floor to benefits or submitting embodiment of sin.
Converse of object
- live: Today he's a kind of living embodiment of the form, a sort of one-man world heritage site.
- represent: Today's Assembly to some extent represents the very embodiment of integration.
- become: He became a mild embodiment of the spirit of reason.
- find: Did Marxism find then a genuine embodiment in action?
- give: Io, then, is a hopeful figure, who in spite of intense suffering gives embodiment to the hope which Prometheus has granted.
Adjective modifier
- preferred: Control routines in a preferred embodiment are integrated into a single system BIOS.
- physical: They are the physical embodiment of the phrase " everyone has a book in them " .
- ultimate: Eel spears are the ultimate embodiment of beauty of form derived from function.
- institutional: CAFCASS is the institutional embodiment of the opposite of the NATC Early Interventions project.
- perfect: In fact, Shearer is seen by many to be the perfect embodiment of the nation.
- concrete: In fact, it is the concrete embodiment of a new approach to the relations between states.
Modifies a noun
- design: Tang, M.X. A 3D assembly algorithm for embodiment design.
Noun used with modifier
- material: Conversely, they could not speak of gods or soul qualities without also speaking of material embodiment.
embodiment Quotes
The Law is the true embodiment Of everything that's excellent. It has no kind of fault or flaw, And I, my Lords, embody the Law.
Browse dictionary entries near embodiment
- embodied
- emblemizing
- emblemized
- emblemize
- emblements
- emblematizing
- emblematized
- emblematize
- emblematically
- emblematical
- embody
- embodying
- embolden
- embolectomy
- emboli
- embolic
- embolism
- embolus
- emboly
- embonpoint
