incarnate
/in'kɑ:nit/
Definition
Adjective:
- Invested with a bodily form, especially human form: Used to describe a spirit, deity, or abstract quality that has taken on a physical, human body. It often implies a perfect or extreme embodiment.
- Possessing or existing in bodily form: More generally, it means having a tangible, physical form.
Verb:
- To represent in bodily form; to embody: To give a concrete, physical form to an idea, quality, or spirit.
- To make concrete and real: To put an abstract concept into a tangible or visible form.
Usage Examples
Adjective:
- The villagers believed the wise elder was a god incarnate.
- He is cruelty incarnate; he shows no mercy to anyone.
Verb:
- The artist's new sculpture incarnates the concept of peace.
- In her leadership, she incarnated the hopes of her people.
Advanced Usage
- "to be incarnate": To exist in a physical, bodily form.
- For believers, the divine became incarnate in human history.
- "evil incarnate" / "goodness incarnate": Used as a noun phrase to describe a person who is the ultimate or perfect example of that quality.
- The villain in the story is not just bad; he is evil incarnate.
Variants and Related Words
- Incarnation (n): The act of incarnating or the state of being incarnate; a concrete or physical version of something.
- This project is the latest incarnation of his original idea.
- Reincarnate (v): To be born again in a new body after death.
- Some believe that souls reincarnate.
Synonyms
- Adjective: Embodied, personified, manifested, corporeal.
- Verb: Embody, personify, manifest, substantiate, materialize.
Related Phrases
- The Incarnation (proper noun): In Christian theology, the embodiment of God the Son in human flesh as Jesus Christ.
Adjective
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invested with a bodily form especially of a human body
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a monarch...regarded as a god incarnate
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possessing or existing in bodily form
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what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind- Shakespeare
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an incarnate spirit
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`corporate' is an archaic term
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Verb
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represent in bodily form
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He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system
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The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist
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make concrete and real
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