Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Incarnation

Incarnation , noun

[French incarnation, Late Latin incarnatio.]

1.
The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature.
2.
(Theology) The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ.
3.
An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act.
She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead. — Jeffrey
The very incarnation of selfishness. — F. W. Robertson
4.
A rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation. [Obsolete]
5.
(Medicine) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.