incarnation

Meanings

1. An incarnate being or form.
2. A version or iteration (of something).
3. A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
4. An assumption of human form or nature.
5. A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like.
6. The act of incarnating.
7. The state of being incarnated.
8. A rosy or red colour; flesh (the colour); carnation.
9. The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

1. 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.

Etymology

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