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Incarnation vs Crowning - What's the difference?

incarnation | crowning |

As nouns the difference between incarnation and crowning

is that incarnation is an incarnate being or form while crowning is a coronation.

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.

As a verb crowning is

present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective crowning is

supreme; of a surpassing quality or quantity.

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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    crowning

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Supreme; of a surpassing quality or quantity.
    • a crowning achievement
    crowning glory

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A coronation.
    • The crownings of the two successive monarchs were only a year apart.
  • The act of one who crowns (in various senses).
  • * 1860 , Fraser's Magazine (volume 61, page 711)
    • There were outflankings and crownings of hills by numbers of thirteen and seventeen men, that made one hold one's breath.