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When an abstract idea quits its desk job and shows up wearing a body.

means A tangible, living representation of an idea, quality, or feeling in concrete form.

from From en- (to put into) plus body, surfacing in English around the 1820sliterally the act of giving flesh to the formless.

Religious rootsPredates by incarnation, the divine-gets-skin version of the idea.
Modern scienceEmbodied cognition argues you think with your body, not just your skull.
Grammar cousinTo embody is the verb; embodiment is the finished result.
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