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Embody   /ɪmbˈɑdi/   Listen
Embody

verb
(past & past part. embodied; pres. part. embodying)  (Written also imbody)
1.
Represent in bodily form.  Synonyms: body forth, incarnate, substantiate.  "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"
2.
Represent, as of a character on stage.  Synonyms: be, personify.
3.
Represent or express something abstract in tangible form.






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"Embody" Quotes from Famous Books



... perfection of his deceit brought Pauline that feeling that she had had since childhood that sense of an insidious influence always surrounding her, always menacing and yet never revealed. This influence, which Owen seemed to embody, was the antagonist of that other mysterious power, so real and yet so inexplicable, that warded and protected her—the spirit of the girl that had stepped ...
— The Perils of Pauline • Charles Goddard

... in Pali, the most renowned are the Pitakattayan, literally "The Three Baskets," which embody the doctrines, discourses, and discipline of the Buddhists, and so voluminous is this collection that its contents extend to 592,000 stanzas; and the Atthakatha or commentaries, which are as old as the fifth century[1], contain 361,550 more. From ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent

... of real power write such unendurable stuff? Or how, indeed, could any man come to embody his thoughts in the style of which one other sentence will be a sufficient example? As it is afterwards nearly repeated, it may be supposed to have struck his fancy. The remarks of the philosophers who denounce temerity are, he says, 'too just to be disputed and too salutary to be rejected; but ...
— Hours in a Library - New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) • Leslie Stephen

... splendid patriotism and devotion to the highest ideals of citizenship. I am sure that these treaties have been inspired by these sentiments, and, being honest and benevolent in their purpose, the principle they embody must prevail ...
— Fifty Years of Public Service • Shelby M. Cullom

... the confidence of the people of Paris; he connected himself with literary men by the cultivation of his mind; with the Orleans party by his intimacy with Madame de Genlis, the favourite of the prince, and governess to his children. He was spoken of in one place as a sage, who sought to embody philosophy in the constitution; in another as a sagacious conspirator, who desired to sap the throne, or to place upon it the Duc D'Orleans, embodying the interests and dynasty of the people. This two-fold reputation was equally advantageous ...
— History of the Girondists, Volume I - Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution • Alphonse de Lamartine


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