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embodiment, imbodiment|ɛm-, ɪmˈbɒdɪmənt|
[f. embody v. + -ment.]
1. The action of embodying; the process or state of being embodied. lit. and fig.
1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnl. II. 19 As long as a beautiful thought shall require physical embodiment. 1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 125 Souls..condemned, by reason of sin, to repeated embodiment. 1881Athenæum No. 2811. 348/2 No less admirable is Herr Reichmann's embodiment of Wolfram.
2. concr. That in which (something) is embodied.
a. The corporeal ‘vesture’ or ‘habitation’ of (a soul). Also fig.
1850Whipple Ess. & Rev. (ed. 3) I. 311 This fiery spiritual essence was enclosed in a frame sensitive enough to be its fit embodiment. 1862H. Spencer First Princ. i. i. (1875) 13 The soul of truth contained in erroneous creeds is very unlike most..of its several embodiments.
b. That in which (a principle, an abstract idea, etc.) is embodied, actualized, or concretely expressed. Also applied (with some reference to sense a) to persons: The embodied type, ‘incarnation’ (of a quality, sentiment, etc.).
1828Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 117 The most striking embodiment of a highly remarkable belief. 1835Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) III. iii. 30 Jack and Stephen..are..an embodiment of my notion of an English sailor, and of a..tradesman. 1855H. Reed Lect. Eng. Hist. iv. 133 He is the imbodiment of the most genuine national feeling. 1868E. Edwards Ralegh I. i. 22 To Ralegh, the Spanish empire and polity became the very types and embodiments of evil. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 141 Works of art..the visible embodiment of the divine. |