embody
verb (used with object)
to give a concrete form to; express, personify, or exemplify in concrete form.
embodier
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a word derived from
embody.
Example Sentences
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Woody Allen, Alvy’s creator and embodier, holds just as virulent a contempt for competitive awards.
From Time ● Feb. 15, 2012
He must have been perfectly conscious of his genius, and of the great trust which he imposed upon his native tongue as embodier and perpetuator of it.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various
In an idea word-embodied, the embodier, then, possesses with God concurrent ownership.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. by Various
Because the supernatural is nothing but ever-renewed impressions, ever-shifting fancies; and that art is the definer, the embodier, the analytic and synthetic force of form.
From Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions by Vernon Lee
In short, Mademoiselle Melanie was not a mantua-maker, or milliner,—she was the genius of taste, the artful embodier of poetry in outward adorning.
From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie
