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embodiment(dictionary)
embodiment(dictionary)

embodiment (iou)



embodiment noun. . E19.
[from EMBODY + -MENT.]
A material or actual thing or person in which an abstract principle, concept, etc., is realized or concretely expressed; a person who is a typical expression of a quality, sentiment, etc. E19.
H. Keller I thought the professors were the embodiment of wisdom. J. Raban The city has always been an embodiment of hope.
b. The corporeal habitation of a soul. M19.
The action of embodying; the process or state of embodying. M19.
F. Hall Souls..condemned, by reason of sin, to repeated embodiment.