All 8 Uses of
embodiment
in
The Lords of Discipline
- As an embodiment of conscious slovenliness, I had been a private for four consecutive years, and my classmates, demonstrating remarkable powers of discrimination, had consistently placed me near the bottom of my class.†
Chpt 1.1
- In his simplicity and radiant faith in all systems of order, Gauldin represented to me the embodiment of the Institute man.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- They listened because they feared me as the moment's appointed embodiment of the system.†
Chpt 1.9
- Swarming about me were the disembodied faces of Annie Kate, Pearce, the Bear, the General, Abigail, Poteete, Alexander—faces, faces, faces, too many of them at once.†
Chpt 1.15disembodied = removed from physical representationstandard 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.
- Their voices seemed to come from everywhere, from nowhere, disembodied, disengaged.†
Chpt 2.16
- I thought this was the education I desired and that in Tradd's mother I had found a woman who embodied every quality of grace and intelligence and virtue that I would look for in a wife.†
Chpt 2.18embodied = physically represented
- They worked on him in squads of three, screaming at him in those other-worldly, disembodied voices.†
Chpt 4.38disembodied = removed from physical representationstandard 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.
- In the background was a figure estranged and disembodied from the others, the unmistakable figure of the Bear, smoking his cigar and overseeing the proceedings with a malevolently inappropriate grin.†
Chpt 4.39
Definition:
a physical representation of a concept