incarnation

Meaning

Noun

• An incarnate being or form.
• A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
• An assumption of human form or nature.
• A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like.
• The act of incarnating.
• The state of being incarnated.
• A rosy or red colour; flesh colour; carnation.
• The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

Origin

• From Middle English incarnacion, borrowed from Old French incarnacion, from Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin incarnatio, from Late Latin incarnari ("to be made flesh").