incarnate
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.
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.
Origin of incarnate
1Other words from incarnate
- non·in·car·nate, adjective
- non·in·car·nat·ed, adjective
- un·in·car·nate, adjective
- un·in·car·nat·ed, adjective
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How to use incarnate in a sentence
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.
Virgil Abloh: Anna Wintour, Kanye West, and Venus Williams Share Memories | Alaina Demopoulos | November 29, 2021 | The Daily Beast“Within its 1806 embodiment of the cocktail incarnate—spirit, sweetner, bitters, water—there is traditionalism,” Simonson writes.
The Rise and Fall…and Rise Again of the Old-Fashioned | Allison McNearney | June 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe 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.
Why Leonardo DiCaprio, Who Wows in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street,’ Deserves to (Finally) Win An Oscar | Marlow Stern | February 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHis 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.
Edward Snowden, Not Pope Francis, Is the Person of the Year | James Poulos | December 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST"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.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodHence she surpassed in grace and holiness all other created beings, and was consecrated a worthy temple of the incarnate Word.
Mary, Help of Christians | VariousShe was a creature consecrated, made holy by suffering; she was the sacredness of life incarnate, a thing godlike, beyond earth.
Love's Pilgrimage | Upton SinclairDestiny, incarnate in the form of Wellington, has still some dignity; but how sordid in the shape of Hudson Lowe.
Toilers of the Sea | Victor Hugo
British Dictionary definitions for incarnate
possessing bodily form, esp the human form: a devil incarnate
personified or typified: stupidity incarnate
(esp of plant parts) flesh-coloured or pink
to give a bodily or concrete form to
to be representative or typical of
Origin of incarnate
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