ETYM French incarnation, Late Lat. incarnatio.
1. An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act.
2. 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.
3. The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ.
1. Action de la Divinité qui s'incarne, ou résultat de cette action. L'incarnation de Jésus-Christ : le verbe s'est fait chair.
2. Image, modèle. Il est l'incarnation de la beauté masculine.
Incarnation.
The Christian doctrine of the union of God and man in the person of Jesus Christ.
Assumption of living form (plant, animal, human) by a deity; for example, the gods of Greece and Rome, Hinduism, and Christianity (Jesus as the second person of the Trinity).