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Incarnation vs Birth - What's the difference?

incarnation | birth |

As a proper noun incarnation

is (christianity) the doctrine that the second person of the trinity assumed human form in the person of jesus christ and is fully divine and fully human.

As a noun birth is

(uncountable) the process of childbearing; the beginning of life.

As an adjective birth is

a familial relationship established by childbirth.

As a verb birth is

(dated|or|regional) to bear or give birth to (a child).

incarnation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An incarnate being or form.
  • * Jeffrey
    • She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead.
  • * F. W. Robertson
    • The very incarnation of selfishness.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation , the patent troll.}}
  • A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
  • An assumption of human form or nature.
  • A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like
  • The act of incarnating.
  • The state of being incarnated.
  • (obsolete) A rosy or red colour; flesh colour; carnation.
  • (medicine, obsolete) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

    • Related terms

    * carnal * incarnate * reincarnate * reincarnation

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    birth

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The process of childbearing; the beginning of life.
  • (countable) An instance of childbirth.
    • Intersex babies account for roughly one per cent of all births .
  • (countable) A beginning or start; a point of origin.
    • the birth of an empire
  • (uncountable) The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing.
    • He was of noble birth , but fortune had not favored him.
  • * Prescott
    • elected without reference to birth , but solely for qualifications
  • That which is born.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Poets are far rarer births than kings.
  • * Addison
    • Others hatch their eggs and tend the birth till it is able to shift for itself.

    • Antonyms

    * (beginning of life) death

    References

    Adjective

    (-)
  • A familial relationship established by childbirth.
    • Her birth father left when she was a baby; she was raised by her mother and stepfather.

    Synonyms

    * biological, blood, consanguineous

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dated, or, regional) To bear or give birth to (a child).
  • * 1939 ,
    • "I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!"
  • (figuratively) To produce, give rise to.
  • * 2006 , R. Bruce Hull, Infinite Nature , University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226359441, page 156:
    • Biological evolution created a human mind that enabled cultural evolution, which now outpaces and outclasses the force that birthed it.

    Usage notes

    * The term is much more common, especially in literal use.

    Related terms

    * bear * born

    Derived terms

    * accident of birth * birth control * birthdate * birthday * birthing * birth mother * birth pangs * birth parent * birth pill * birthplace * birthrate * birthright * birthstone * birth tourism * breech birth * give birth * noble birth * virgin birth 1000 English basic words ----