Embody meaning

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embodied embodies embodying
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To give definite, tangible, or visible form to; make concrete.

A speech embodying democratic ideals.

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To represent in a physical form; to incarnate or personify.

As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze.

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To give a bodily form to; incarnate.
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To give bodily form to; make corporeal; incarnate.
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To make part of a system or whole; incorporate.

Laws that embody a people's values.

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To include or represent, especially as part of a cohesive whole.

The US Constitution aimed to embody the ideals of diverse groups of people, from Puritans to Deists.

The principle was recognized by some of the early Greek philosophers who embodied it in their systems.

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To embody is defined as to represent in bodily form or to bring together as a whole.

An example of to embody is for a person to have the qualities of trust and honesty.

An example of to embody is to include input from all students in making classroom rules.

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To bring together into an organized whole.

The laws embodied in a legal code.

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To make part of an organized whole; incorporate.

The latest findings embodied in the new book.

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To represent in bodily or material form.
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Embody Sentence Examples

  • On the great day of atonement the high priest appears in a vicarious and representative capacity, and offers on behalf of the whole nation which he was considered to embody in his sacred person.

  • They embody for the time being a vague consciousness of the divine, which is concentrated for some single act into an outward object, like a warrior's spear or the thunderbolt, 2 or the last sheaf of corn into which the Corn-Mother has been driven.

  • The concessions to Nominalism which such views embody make them representative of what Haureau calls " the Peripatetic section of the Realistic school."

  • It would be well-nigh impossible to exaggerate the services rendered to the ancient British tongue, and consequently to the national spirit of Wales, by these Elizabethan and Jacobean translations, issued in 1567, 1588 and 1620, which were able definitely to fix the standard of classical Welsh, and to embody the contending dialects of Gwynedd, Dyfed and Gwent for all time in one literary storehouse.

  • It was an ideal that failed to embody itself and justify itself by its fruits.

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