Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of embody
nounembodying (plural embodyings)
plural embodyings
- embodiment
They stood, less like the great champions or warring states of antiquity, throwing their whole force into the struggle for the temporary prizes of the sword, than two great embodyings of principle, two master-spirits, contending for the dominion of the minds of mankind[…]
1835, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 38, page 627
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