discarnate

[ dis-kahr-nit, -neyt ]

/ dɪsˈkɑr nɪt, -neɪt /

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adjective

without a physical body; incorporeal.

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Origin of discarnate

1655–65; dis¹ + -carnate, as in incarnate

OTHER WORDS FROM discarnate

dis·car·na·tion, noun

Words nearby discarnate

discal, discalced, discant, discard, discarded, discarnate, discase, disc brake, disc camera, discern, discerner

How to use discarnate in a sentence

The spirits discarnate await a chance of entering into women, and being reborn.
The Secret of the Totem|Andrew Lang
This intelligence or initiative can surely be as well supplied by the sub-consciousness as by a discarnate intelligence.
Bygone Beliefs|H. Stanley Redgrove
His psychic apparatus never failed in letting him know the proximity of an incarnate or discarnate being.
Day and Night Stories|Algernon Blackwood
We are aware of unbodied emotions about us, of discarnate moods that mock or invite us.
The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction|Dorothy Scarborough

Dark discarnate hate manifests itself to those within reach.
The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction|Dorothy Scarborough