Word Finder - embodiment

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The process of embodying.

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A physical entity typifying an abstract concept.

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You are the very embodiment of beauty.

Jesus Christ is the complete embodiment of this ideal, in life and in death.

Meanwhile he set about building for himself at Upton a house which was to be the embodiment of all his principles of decorative art.

The lecture-halls seemed filled with the spirit of the great and the wise, and I thought the professors were the embodiment of wisdom.

Oldness, sameness, permanence of principle and direction, these must be, otherwise there is nothing; but newness of embodiment, existence, realization also, otherwise nothing is.

The "Melancolia," numbered "1" as though intended to be the first of a series, with its brooding winged genius sitting dejectedly amidst a litter of scientific instruments and symbols, is hard to interpret in detail, but impossible not to recognize in general terms as an embodiment of the spirit of intellectual research (the student's "temperament" was supposed to be one with the melancholic), resting sadly from its labours in a mood of lassitude and defeat.

He became the exponent, the very embodiment, of an idea.

In these two conceptions, justice and war, lie the germs of the later idea of Jupiter as the embodiment of the life of the Roman people both in their internal organization and in their external relations.

In the opinion of the people he was now regarded as the embodiment of all legal virtue; his health was toasted at the dinners of the Whigs amid rounds of applause, and, in recompense for the loss of his seat in parliament, he was returned by Lord Clive for his pocket-borough of Bishop's Castle, in Shropshire, in January 1770.

With Zeus and Apollo, she forms a triad which represents the embodiment of all divine power.

His genius was one of generalization and abstraction; and the aspirations of the time towards unity and perfection received, by his serene labours, an embodiment denied to them in the troubled world of politics.

As to later forms of religion, he appears to have held that they owe their vitality to their embodiment of the deep-seated moral feelings of our common humanity.

Ideal metaphysics, though they fail of the inner truth of things, have a value as the embodiment of high aspirations, in the same way as poetry and religion.

The new constitution was the embodiment of Radical principles, and the numerically strongest party in the country was Radical.

But a religion could not permanently subsist in this world of space and time without some external concrete embodiment.

From this fact arises the ground of political obligation, for the institutions of political or civic life are the concrete embodiment of moral ideas in terms of our day and generation.

Here, in the centre of a small chapel, surrounded by his chief companions in arms, by Alvar Fanez Minaya, Pero Bermudez, Martin Antolinez and Pelaez the Asturian, were placed the remains of the mighty warrior, the truest of Spanish heroes, the embodiment of all the national virtues and most of the national vices.

The deity of the city was Artemis; but we must guard against misconception when we use that name, remembering that she bore close relation to the primitive Asiatic goddess of nature, whose cult existed before the Ionian migration at the neighbouring Ortygia, and that she always remained the virgin-mother of all life and especially wild life, and an embodiment of the fertility and productive power of the earth.

By that time he had contracted his first "spiritual marriage," and had persuaded himself that he had been absorbed into the personality of God and had become a visible embodiment of the Holy Spirit.

Lincoln described Sumner as " my idea of a bishop," and used to consult him as an embodiment of the conscience of the American people.

Indeed, the time was not ripe for such discussions, still less for the tracing of lines of descent and their embodiment in a genealogical classification.

Whence, however, can this authority belong to the natural, unless nature be itself an expression or embodiment of divine law and wisdom?

In his sanctuary on the Quirinal, the foundation of which was celebrated on the 5th of June, there were shown the distaff and spindle of Tanaquil, the wife of Tarquinius Priscus, and in the, eyes of Roman matrons the embodiment of all wifely virtues.

Yet, despite all, the angel as an embodiment of purity prevails, and still has the power to evoke awe and wonder.

It was a cuddly toy, but not so much cuddly as an embodiment of evil in low quality stitching.

The embodiment of the lesser forces of the universe who inspired dread, the threat of our own damnation.

Today he's a kind of living embodiment of the form, a sort of one-man world heritage site.

Today's Assembly to some extent represents the very embodiment of integration.

He became a mild embodiment of the spirit of reason.

Did Marxism find then a genuine embodiment in action?

Io, then, is a hopeful figure, who in spite of intense suffering gives embodiment to the hope which Prometheus has granted.

Control routines in a preferred embodiment are integrated into a single system BIOS.

Eel spears are the ultimate embodiment of beauty of form derived from function.

In fact, Shearer is seen by many to be the perfect embodiment of the nation.

In fact, it is the concrete embodiment of a new approach to the relations between states.

Conversely, they could not speak of gods or soul qualities without also speaking of material embodiment.

To be fully local is not just geographical it is embodiment in a culture.

The sharp prickles attached to the palm are an embodiment of hyper-sensitivity.

The young Brits Bush seems to regard as the embodiment of evil are ordinary lads, neither especially political not devoutly religious.

Or was he the embodiment of English sang-froid, an empire-builder and hero?

The title, rank and style " King " is recognition of the physical embodiment of the nation's sovereignty.

The moral character of Europe in 1300 was no longer the moral character of Europe in 110o; and the Crusades, which had been the active and objective embodiment of the other worldly Europe of I i oo, were alien to the secular, legal, scholastic Europe of 1300.

But it is not impertinent, and is at the same time an excuse for what has been already said, to repeat that Villehardouin's book, brief as it is, is in reality one of the capital books of literature, not merely for its merit, but because it is the most authentic and the most striking embodiment in contemporary literature of the sentiments which determined the action of a great and important period of history.

And Benedict of Aniane's ideas of organization found embodiment a century later in the order of Cluny (910), which for a time overshadowed the great body of mere Benedictines (see Cluny).

Daub had become so hopelessly addicted to this perverse principle that he deduced not only Jesus as the embodiment of the philosophical idea of the union of God and man, but also Judas Iscariot as the embodiment of the idea of a rival god, or Satan."

The Connecticut clock maker and clock peddler was the 18th-century embodiment of Yankee ingenuity; the most famous of the next generation of clock makers were Eli Terry (1772-1852), who made a great success of his wooden clocks; Chauncey Jerome, who first used brass wheels in 1837 and founded in 1844 the works of the New Haven Clock Co.; Gideon Roberts; and Terry's pupil and successor, Seth Thomas (1786-1859), who built the factory at Thomaston carried on by his son Seth Thomas (1816-1888).

The title, rank and style " King " is recognition of the physical embodiment of the nation 's sovereignty.

He was accused of being an unfeeling monster, the embodiment of unfair and unjust laws.

This fragrance is billed as the embodiment of music and fashion; the girl that wears this fragrance is upbeat, prefers a guitar to a tiara and writes poetry in her spare time.

In all seriousness, Aqua Teen Hunger Force is a welcomed antidote to a stressful day; it's the perfect embodiment of tuning in and dropping out.

A classic metal aviator frame with spring hinges designed for a comfortable fit, these Marcelo frames are the very embodiment of cool.