Vocabulary Word
Word: incarnation
Definition: act of assuming a human body and human nature; one who personifies something; personification; Ex. previous incarnation/reincarnation
Definition: act of assuming a human body and human nature; one who personifies something; personification; Ex. previous incarnation/reincarnation
Sentences Containing 'incarnation'
The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung.
The Hindoo whale referred to, occurs in a separate department of the wall, depicting the incarnation of Vishnu in the form of leviathan, learnedly known as the Matse Avatar.
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