INCARNATE


Meaning of INCARNATE in English

(incarnating, ~d)

1.

If you say that someone is a quality ~, you mean that they represent that quality or are typical of it in an extreme form.

She is evil ~...

= personified

ADJ: n ADJ

2.

You use ~ to say that something, especially a god or spirit, is represented in human form.

Why should God become ~ as a male?...

ADJ: v-link ADJ, n ADJ, ADJ n

3.

If you say that a quality is ~d in a person, you mean that they represent that quality or are typical of it in an extreme form.

The iniquities of the regime are ~d in one man.

...a writer who ~s the changing consciousness of the Americas.

= embody

VERB: be V-ed in n, V n

4.

If you say that someone or something is ~d in a particular form, you mean that they appear on earth in that form.

The god Vishnu was ~d on earth as a king.

VERB: usu passive, be V-ed prep

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