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.
Alternate (chiefly British) spelling for materialization.
(Alternate spelling: materialisation).
An appearance in bodily form (as of a ghost); SYN. materialisation.
ETYM Cf. French personnification.
1. One who personifies an abstract quality.
2. Representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature; SYN. prosopopoeia.
3. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.; SYN. incarnation.
Figure of speech (poetic or imaginative expression) in which animals, plants, objects, and ideas are treated as if they were human or alive (“Clouds chased each other across the face of the Moon”; “Nature smiled on their work and gave it her blessing”; “The future beckoned eagerly to them”).