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Embodiment

noun

A new personification of a familiar idea. Synonyms: avatar, incarnation. "The incarnation of evil" , "The very avatar of cunning"

A concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept. Synonym: shape.

Giving concrete form to an abstract concept.

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"Embodiment" Quotes from Famous Books

... the simple life of Marsden again. Five years had changed him enormously. His figure had always promise of athletic suppleness. It was now splendidly compact. He left the type of the conventional farmer. He returned the picturesque embodiment of the far West. Perhaps, in his long locks, wide sombrero, undressed leggings, and prodigal display of shooting irons, there may have been a theatrical suggestion of ...

— The Hunted Outlaw - Donald Morrison, The Canadian Rob Roy • Anonymous

... Darwin's work he says (page 156): "I believe that if you strip it of its theoretical part, it still remains one of the greatest encyclopaedias of biological doctrine that any one man ever brought forth; and I believe that, if you take it as the embodiment of an hypothesis, it is destined to be the guide of biological and psychological speculation for the next three or four generations.') I have met with reprinted from you two or ...

— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin

... the count, pressing his hand hard. "I adore her, and I am jealous—without knowing of whom and of what! She does not love me—and yet she loves some one—she must love some one! How can I doubt it? Look at her; she is the very embodiment of passion; the fire of passion overflows in her words, in her looks, in the blood of her veins! And near me, she is as cold as the statue ...

— Led Astray and The Sphinx - Two Novellas In One Volume • Octave Feuillet

... strain of melancholy like a smile through tears, the laugh which conceals a sob. There is symbolism and there is parody in his rustic figures, but they are so living, so real, they appeal so strongly to the innermost feelings, that they seem the embodiment of one's thoughts. His pictures are like those of the Dutch painters: every trait in the rustic scene tells the life-story ...

— Norwegian Life • Ethlyn T. Clough

... could kill his wife without a shudder when she put herself and child into the hands of his enemies to betray him. Hospitable and generous, but untamed and terrible; brusque, dictatorial, and without consideration or compassion; the offspring of his times and his people, he stands the embodiment of primeval energy, physical ...

— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. I. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane

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