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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.

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  1. n. 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. n. The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ.
  3. n. An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act.
  4. n. A rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation.
  5. n. The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.
  6. n. (Christianity) the Christian doctrine of the union of God and man in the person of Jesus Christ
  7. n. a new personification of a familiar idea
  8. n. time passed in a particular bodily form
  9. n. the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
  10. 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. 4. A rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation. [Obs.] 5. (Med.) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.
  11. The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood inChrist.
  12. n:100 n. (Christianity) the Christian doctrine of the union of God and man in the person of Jesus Christ n. time passed in a particular bodily form