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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

... acting. With a great composer and an interpreter free to respond, the music and the body of the actor are one in their power of expressing the emotions. And the songs without words of the interludes so affect the spirit of the singer that, whether quiet or in motion, he seems, through being a living embodiment of the music, to impress the sense of seeing so that it ...

— Power Through Repose • Annie Payson Call

... element left to choose from, and that a passive one, but knew, on general principles, that Spluethner must be wrong, got as far off as he could and took Ice. And Spluethner having pooh-poohed this, Zimmermann rode his hypothesis with redoubled zeal. He became convinced that ice was the embodiment of orthodoxy. Fixing his professional spectacles on his substantial nose, he went into Carinthia and ascended the great Venice mountains, much as he would have performed any other scientific experiment. Then he encamped on the shores ...

— Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 • Various

... the musical giants of the nineteenth century. He will be remembered as one whose life has been interwoven with the lives of the greatest musicians of his day, as one of the greatest educators in his line who ever lived, and as the embodiment of the purest and highest ideas ...

— Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday • Henry C. Lahee

... and courage; and nothing else in nature, not even the chase of the whale, can afford so vivid an illustration of the sovereignty of man over brute creation even when confronted with force in its most stupendous embodiment. ...

— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent

... her that he complained, for he could expect no sympathy from' Lester. So far as his own meager store of money was concerned, he gave the most of it to his beloved church, where he was considered to be a model of propriety, honesty, faith—in fact, the embodiment ...

— Jennie Gerhardt - A Novel • Theodore Dreiser

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