different between manifestation vs incarnation

English

Etymology

From Latin manifestatio.Morphologically manifest +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæn?f??ste???n/, /?mæn?f??ste???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

manifestation (countable and uncountable, plural manifestations)

1. The act or process of becoming manifest.

   The last known manifestation of the ghost was over ten years ago.

2. The embodiment of an intangible, or variable thing.

   This particular manifestation resembled a young girl crying.

3. (medicine) The symptoms or observable conditions which are seen as a result of some disease.
4. A pattern or logo on a sheet of glass, as decoration and/or to prevent people from accidentally walking into it.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Late Latin manifestatio

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ni.f?s.ta.sj??/

Noun

manifestation f (plural manifestations)

1. protest, demonstration
2. expression
3. assembly, gathering (of people for an event)
4. creation

Related terms

• manifester
• manifest

Further reading

• “manifestation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

manifestation (plural manifestationes)

1. manifestation

Swedish

Noun

manifestation c

1. manifestation

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English incarnacion, borrowed from Old French incarnacion, from Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin incarnatio, from Late Latin incarnari (“to be made flesh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k??(?)?ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

incarnation (countable and uncountable, plural incarnations)

1. An incarnate being or form.
   • 1815, Francis Jeffrey, Wordsworth's White Doe (review)

     She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead.

   • 1922, Baroness Orczy, The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel

     Robespierre, the very incarnation of lustful and deadly Vengeance, stands silently by..
2. A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
3. An assumption of human form or nature.
4. A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like.

5. The act of incarnating.
6. The state of being incarnated.
7. (obsolete) A rosy or red colour; flesh colour; carnation.
8. (medicine, obsolete) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

Related terms

• carnal
• incarnate
• reincarnate
• reincarnation

Translations

Further reading

• incarnation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• incarnation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Middle French incarnation, from Old French incarnacion, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarn?ti?, incarn?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.ka?.na.sj??/

Noun

incarnation f (plural incarnations)

1. embodiment (entity typifying an abstraction)

Related terms

• incarner

Further reading

• “incarnation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French incarnacion, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarn?ti?, incarn?ti?nem.

Noun

incarnation f (plural incarnations)

1. (Christianity) Incarnation. Specifically, the incarnation of God in the form of Jesus Christ.

Descendants

• French: incarnation

References

• incarnation on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)