From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishincarnatein‧car‧nate1 /ɪnˈkɑːnət $ -ɑːr-/ adjective 1 → be evil/beauty/greed etc incarnate2 having taken human form Jesus, the incarnate Son of God The media cast him as the devil incarnate (=someone very evil).
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incarnate• He thus challenged authority simply by declaring that he was al-haqq, truth incarnate.• With their mix of male and female imagery, snakes are sexuality incarnate.• The mental vibrations are also expressed in the aura which every incarnate being has around it.• Was the future of the Rabari incarnate in this young man?• And he is incarnate in us all whenever we are in converse with each other, instructing or mercifully helping.incarnatein‧car‧nate2 /ˈɪnkɑːneɪt $ -ɑːr-/ verb [transitive] formal 1 PERSON/PEOPLEto represent a particular quality in a physical or human form The crown incarnates national power.2 PERSON/PEOPLEto make something appear in a human form→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
incarnate• Like the sort of heterodox culture which Mapplethorpe incarnated.• The Church asserts that human beings are incarnated spirits: souls in bodies.• Truly great leaders such as Oppenheimer seem to incarnate the dream and become one with it.• She incarnates the innocence that makes "Don Giovanni" such a moving story.• Then you must incarnate what others incarnate.Origin incarnate1 (1300-1400) Late Latin past participle of incarnare, from Latin caro “flesh” 