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incarnate

in·car·nate

UK/ˈɪnkɑːneɪt/ US/ɪnˈkɑːɹ.nɪt/ uncommon obsolete rare
adjective (2) verb (2)

adjective

1.

possessing or existing in bodily form

  • “what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind” Shakespeare
  • “an incarnate spirit”
  • “corporate”
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2.

invested with a bodily form especially of a human body

  • “a monarch...regarded as a god incarnate”
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verb

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2.

represent in bodily form

  • “He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system”
  • “The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist”
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Origin

First attested in 1395, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English incarnat(e) (“(of God or Christ) embodied in human form or flesh, incarnate; provided with new tissues, healed; (with devel, in curses) bloody”), borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarnātus, perfect passive participle of incarnor (“to be made flesh, become incarnate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- + Latin carō (“flesh”, carn- in its oblique stem) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, in- + Latin carn- + -ate.

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