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1. The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature.
2. The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ.
3. An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act. "She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead." (Jeffrey) "The very incarnation of selfishness." (F. W. Robertson)
4. A rosy or red colour; flesh colour; carnation.
5. <medicine> The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.
Origin: F. Incarnation, LL. Incarnatio.
(01 Mar 1998)
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