to incarnate
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7.0
- verb
- /ɪnˈkɑrnɪt/
- Formal
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encarnar
- The artist aimed to incarnate the spirit of freedom in her sculpture.
- incarnated in the Word
The great names of the past, marching round the yard in solemn procession, Incarnate in our buildings.
- The great names of the past, marching round the yard in solemn procession, Incarnate in our buildings.
- They were thoughtfully that they incarnated a good ideology.
Examples
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Each of these books had as a hero a knight errant that incarnated heroism, hammer of fidelity, and was the defender of justice and of the oppressed.
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In this "institutionalist" perspective, the Armed Forces are tutelary institutions that incarnate the nation and its history.
Academic text (1991) -
So God incarnated in the person of Jesus as a, as a, a representation of God in human form.
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And Step 3, writing down the solution, is incarnating that algorithm in code.
Blog text (20) -
The public is thus incarnated in the fatally limited number of visitors.
Academic text (1998) -
His indecision has become doubt, and this doubt is incarnated in a substitute object.
Academic text (1992) -
The possibilities of new life, imaginatively narrated by Jesus' parables, become actualized only when they are incarnated by Jesus' life.
Academic text (2006) -
Thus, this Bouriyan-Mami Wata assemblage was an Indian and European-influenced creation incarnated in a vodun spirit.
Academic text (1999) -
Bhirendra incarnates Ghesar Gyalpo's life-giving sakti in ritual and transfers it to the patient.
Academic text (1990) -
In the novel, the main character incarnates the ideals of justice and truth.
Synonyms
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2.6
Describe something in a particular way to show an idea
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5.1
Show an idea, quality or feeling in a clear visible way
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6.1
To describe an idea or thing as if it were a human
To show an idea or feeling in a visible way
Give human qualities to something not alive, like the sun
Antonyms
Compounds
How Embodied
Surface Forms
Morphology
incarnate = incarnation (semi-transparent) = in + carn + ate
The verb sense is formed from the same Latinate elements; although the affixes are regular, 'carn' is not a standalone English word, limiting full transparency.
Etymology
The word incarnate comes from Latin parts in- 'in' and carn- 'flesh'. A helpful way to remember the verb is to think of 'putting an idea into flesh' — to incarnate a value is to make that idea real and visible.