In`car*na"tion (?), n. [F. incarnation, LL. incarnatio.]

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. (Theol.) 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.

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