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incarnate
Meaning: embodied in human or visible form
incarnate in a sentence
How incarnate is used in real sentences:
In the allegory, the wandering judge is justice incarnate.
The cruel warden seemed evil incarnate to the prisoners.
“Among them was Mateo Luz, a foreman celebrated in later accounts as civic perseverance incarnate because he worked beside exhausted crews through two winters.”
— from the passage The Northern Channel
Synonyms for incarnate
Other words for incarnate — embodied, personified and manifested — carry the same meaning.
- embodied
- personified
- manifested
Antonyms of incarnate
Words that mean the opposite of incarnate:
- abstract
- disembodied
- immaterial
Where it comes from
From Latin incarnare, meaning 'to make flesh.'
Memory hook
IN + CARN, meaning flesh: something incarnate is made visible in the flesh.