Translate incarnation | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of incarnation
noun
1a person who embodies in the flesh a deity, spirit, or quality:Rama was Vishnu’s incarnation on earth Beethoven was an incarnation of artistic genius (the Incarnation) (in Christian theology) the embodiment of God the Son in human flesh as Jesus Christ.
2(with reference to reincarnation) each of a series of earthly lifetimes:in my next incarnation, I’d like to be the Minister of Fun the form taken by a person or thing during an incarnation: in a previous journalistic incarnation, I worked at Westminster the pub has gone through several incarnations
