Incarnation Definition

ĭnkär-nāshən

incarnations

noun

incarnations

Endowment with a human body; appearance in human form.

Webster's New World

The act of incarnating.

Wiktionary

The condition of being incarnated.

American Heritage

Any person or animal serving as the embodiment of a god or spirit.

Webster's New World

A bodily manifestation of a supernatural being.

American Heritage

Synonyms:

pronoun

(Christianity) The doctrine that the second person of the Trinity assumed human form in the person of Jesus Christ and is fully divine and fully human.

Wiktionary

idiom

the Incarnation

the taking on of a human body by the second person of the Trinity; the joining of the divine and the human in Jesus Christ

Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Incarnation

Noun

Singular:

incarnation

Plural:

incarnations

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Incarnation

the Incarnation

Origin of Incarnation

From Middle English incarnacion, from Old French incarnacion, from Medieval Latin incarnatio, from Late Latin incarnari (“to be made flesh”).

From Wiktionary