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incarnate
[ adjective in-kahr-nit, -neyt; verb in-kahr-neyt ]
adjective
- embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form:
a devil incarnate.
- personified or typified, as a quality or idea:
chivalry incarnate.
- flesh-colored or crimson.
verb (used with object)
- to put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea:
The building incarnates the architect's latest theories.
- to be the embodiment or type of:
Her latest book incarnates the literature of our day.
- to embody in flesh; invest with a bodily, especially a human, form:
a man who incarnated wisdom and compassion.
incarnate
adjective
- possessing bodily form, esp the human form
a devil incarnate
- personified or typified
stupidity incarnate
- (esp of plant parts) flesh-coloured or pink
verb
- to give a bodily or concrete form to
- to be representative or typical of
Other Words From
- nonin·carnate adjective
- nonin·carnat·ed adjective
- unin·carnate adjective
- unin·carnat·ed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of incarnate1
Word History and Origins
Origin of incarnate1
Example Sentences
No other single voice was able to connect with youth in the past troublesome decade the way Virgil did, and he did so naturally, because he was youth incarnate.
“Within its 1806 embodiment of the cocktail incarnate—spirit, sweetner, bitters, water—there is traditionalism,” Simonson writes.
The idea that a classroom full of black kids is something to shake your head at is not wisdom incarnate.
As Jordan Belfort, a charismatic monster of a stockbroker, DiCaprio is a feral beast; the id incarnate.
His angular cheeks, thick glasses, and carefully combed hair incarnate elegance, vision, and, unfortunately, personal agony.
In that happy place of the collective imagination, Snowden is practically an avatar of our secular devil—“negativity” incarnate.
"Without doubt; true demons incarnate," replied the veracious priest.
Her smile was strangely distant, strangely precious: she was love and tenderness incarnate; her little hands held both of his.
Hence she surpassed in grace and holiness all other created beings, and was consecrated a worthy temple of the incarnate Word.
She was a creature consecrated, made holy by suffering; she was the sacredness of life incarnate, a thing godlike, beyond earth.
Destiny, incarnate in the form of Wellington, has still some dignity; but how sordid in the shape of Hudson Lowe.
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