Incantation vs Incarnation - What's the difference?
incantation | incarnation |
The act or process of using formulas and/or usually rhyming words, sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or creating other magical results.
A formula of words used as above.
An incarnate being or form.
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, title= 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.
As nouns the difference between incantation and incarnation
is that incantation is the act or process of using formulas and/or usually rhyming words, sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or creating other magical results while incarnation is an incarnate being or form.As a proper noun Incarnation is
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.incantation
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Alternative forms
* encantationNoun
(en noun)incarnation
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Noun
(en noun)- She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead.
- The very incarnation of selfishness.
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