An archaic or rare form meaning embodiment; the act of giving bodily form, or something that is embodied.
From 'body' plus the suffix '-ment' (Latin '-mentum') which creates nouns from verbs. Similar to 'embodiment,' this form is primarily historical or dialectal rather than standard modern English.
The word 'bodiment' is essentially dead, replaced by the clearer 'embodiment,' but its existence reminds us that English was once more flexible—authors could coin forms like this and people understood them through the productive rules of word-building.
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