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  • My mother thought Brooke Shields, in the dozen different outfits she wore for each show, was the embodiment of perfection.†  (source)
  • He had trusted Dumbledore, believed him the embodiment of goodness and wisdom.†  (source)
  • They, or should I say we, are the very embodiment of hope where there is no hope.†  (source)
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  • An embodied presence.†  (source)
    embodied = physically represented
  • Or I'll try out the disembodied voice of Majel Barrett.†  (source)
    disembodied = removed from physical representation
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disembodied reverses the meaning of embodied. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
  • She was the embodiment of that Victorian archetype, Constant Reader.†  (source)
  • She began to associate with Ralph Myers, a white man with a badly disfigured face and lengthy criminal record who seemed to perfectly embody her fall from grace.†  (source)
    embody = a physical representation of a concept
  • Something new was in the air; freshness—freshness embodying itself in music as the car slid into Glion and they heard the orchestra in the hotel garden.†  (source)
  • "Each of the Seven embodies all of the Seven," Septon Osmynd had told her once.†  (source)
  • She thought of shapes, lines, curlicues; she thought of the signs in the Gray Book, ancient and perfect, embodiments of a language too faultless for speech.†  (source)
  • It is pleasant to analyse feelings while they are still only feelings, and unembodied in the social fabric.†  (source)
    unembodied = without a physical representation
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unembodied means not and reverses the meaning of embodied. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Archer, as the three strolled back through the park, was aware of this odd sense of disembodiment; and humbling as it was to his vanity it gave him the ghostly advantage of observing unobserved.†  (source)
    disembodiment = the act of removing from physical representation; or the state of having been removed from physical representation
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disembodiment reverses the meaning of embodiment. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
  • For she had embodied the Great Perhaps—she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.†  (source)
    embodied = physically represented
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