embodiment
[em-bod-ee-muh nt]
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Origin of embodiment
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
Related Words
personificationarchetypesymbolapotheosisexemplarrealizationepitomeexpressionavatarinclusioncomprehensionmatterintegrationtypeformincarnationconformationcollectionembracementformationExamples from the Web for embodiment
Contemporary Examples
But what is it like to be the embodiment of that, as an ethnically ambiguous individual?
This Palmer stands for elegance and sophistication: the embodiment of natural gifts, both athletic and personal.
One interpretation suggests he is the embodiment of whisky, a lewd allusion to a tenured tradition of Scottish alcoholism.
If Daylyt was an embodiment of what battle rap can be, Murda Mook is a precision-tuned instrument of absolute lyrical destruction.
“Within its 1806 embodiment of the cocktail incarnate—spirit, sweetner, bitters, water—there is traditionalism,” Simonson writes.
Historical Examples
Religion would be better than endurable in the company of such an embodiment of it!
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
It was an exhilaration even to look at that embodiment of physical development.
ThoroughbredsW. A. Fraser
Take him in that state, and he was an embodiment of nothing.
Life And Adventures Of Martin ChuzzlewitCharles Dickens
The words are more a clothing for the thought than an embodiment of it.
A Dish Of OrtsGeorge MacDonald
It seemed to her the embodiment of evil, yet withal of wisdom, too.
The Law-BreakersRidgwell Cullum
Word Origin and History for embodiment
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper