incarnation

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌɪŋ.kɑːˈneɪ.ʃən/    美 /ˌɪŋ.kɑɹˈneɪ.ʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An incarnate being or form. countable,uncountable
    — She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead.
  2. A version or iteration (of something). countable,uncountable
    — It seems that they existed in some sort of previous incarnation of our universe, and use abstract terms to describe their existence, such as "feeding on concepts". They prepared for some sort of ascension, but then the Pattern came, which they describe at first as an all-consuming emptiness, elaborating by saying that anything that passed into it was torn asunder, subjected to a set of principles and order that grinds things down to nothing, in a process of which entropy is just one part.
  3. A living being embodying a deity or spirit. countable,uncountable
  4. An assumption of human form or nature. countable,uncountable
  5. A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like. countable,uncountable
    — The leading dancer is the incarnation of grace.
  6. The act of incarnating. countable,uncountable
  7. The state of being incarnated. countable,uncountable
  8. A rosy or red colour; flesh (the colour); carnation. countable,obsolete,uncountable
  9. The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation. countable,obsolete,uncountable

词形变化

incarnations plural

词汇关系

衍生词
disincarnation incarnational
相关词
carnal incarnate reincarnate reincarnation

词源

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