To represent or express something perfectly; to have a quality so strongly that you are an example of it.
From 'em-' (put into) + 'body' (physical form). Entered English in the 1600s, derived from Medieval Latin, meaning literally 'to put a spirit into a body,' then evolved to mean 'to represent something abstract.'
When you embody something, you don't just have that quality—you're literally the walking example of it. That's why saying 'she embodies courage' is so powerful: it's not that she's just courageous, she is courage in human form.
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