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Definition
a physical representation of a concept
- As I saw them with the spiritual eye, before I attempted to embody them, they were striking; but my hand would not second my fancy, and in each case it had wrought out but a pale portrait of the thing I had conceived.Chapter 13 (68% in)
- In pondering the great mystery, I thought of Helen Burns, recalled her dying words — her faith — her doctrine of the equality of disembodied souls.Chapter 21 (85% in)
- Surely — " I stopped: I could not trust myself to entertain, much less to express, the thought that rushed upon me — that embodied itself, — that, in a second, stood out a strong, solid probability.Chapter 33 (61% in)
There are no more uses of "embodiment" in Jane Eyre.
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