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How to use incarnate in a sentence

18 example sentences · adjective, verb

Incarnate means embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified. Example: “For one thing, we virtually decided that these morbidities and the hellish Himalayan Mi-Go were one and the same order of incarnated nightmare.”

Examples of incarnate by meaning

verbTo embody in flesh; to invest with a bodily, especially a human, form.

  • For one thing, we virtually decided that these morbidities and the hellish Himalayan Mi-Go were one and the same order of incarnated nightmare.1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 2, in The Whisperer in Darkness
  • Not all of the soul can incarnate into a body; the part which is left above is the psyche.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London...

verbTo gain full existence (bodily or otherwise).

  • SCP-3125 incarnated the following winter.2019 August 26, qntm, “Unthreaded”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 161

verbTo put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea.

  • The texts, the words, the letters of that context were incarnated in a series of things, objects, and signs.2005, Paulo Freire, Donaldo Macedo, Literacy: Reading the Word and the World, →ISBN, page 20
  • Responding to this in confusion, perhaps you construct an Idea, a structure, a multiplicity, a system of multiple, nonlocalisable ideal connections which is then incarnated.2006, Constantin V. Boundas, Deleuze and Philosophy, →ISBN, page 160

More sentences with incarnate

  • Once the soul incarnates in mortal bodies, in encounters massive impediments.2021, Andrea Nightingale, Philosophy and Religion in Plato's Dialogues, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 264. From the entry hyperdivine
  • In any other universe, they’d probably be 1v1ing Batman since you’re sure they’re the Joker incarnate.2015, Tertangala; 2015: A Nerd Odyssey. From the entry 1v1
  • There is no latent structure incarnated, no inherent skyness or lakeness in an abstract structural relation.2013, Silke Panse, “Ten Skies, 13 Lakes, 15 Pools – Structure, Immanence and Ecoasthetics in The Swimmer and James Benning's Land Films”…. From the entry skyness
  • “This flesh, almost a cream cheesy richness, a beckoning softness incarnate.”[2007], Jill Kargman, Momzillas, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry cream cheesy
  • The principal of these are demonophobia and the worship of human beings as incarnate deities.1998, Sir Charles Eliot, Hinduism and Buddhism: An Historical Sketch, Volume 1, page 382. From the entry demonophobia
  • If Jesus was the divine–human word incarnate, the Bible was seen as the divine–human word inscripturate.1998 April 8, "Hermeneutics and Christ", Matthias Media, St Matthias Press Ltd.. From the entry inscripturate
  • “This flesh, almost a cream-cheesy richness, a beckoning softness incarnate.”2007, Jill Kargman, Momzillas, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry cream-cheesy
  • The partisan of the Free Spirit did not incarnate sin.1989, Greil Marcus, “The assault on Notre-Dame”, in Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009. From the entry free spirit
  • It would be incorrect to assume that the passive aggressive person is the incarnate of evil in the form of a paggro individual.2020 July 17, Jonathan Sim, “How do you deal with people who are passive aggressive (paggro)?”, in WordPress, archived from the original…. From the entry paggro
  • True religion therefore centers covenantally on the mediating Word of God, spoken in creation, inscriptured in the Bible, and incarnate in Jesus Christ.1992, Gordon J. Spykman, Reformational Theology: A New Paradigm for Doing Dogmatics, page 263. From the entry inscriptured
  • He seems to be justice incarnate.1910, Thomas Dreier, Heroes of Insurgency, page 82. From the entry evilist
  • He is the sum total of all vice and that woman is the abode of all virtue; that wicked man is fire incarnate; she is cool like snow.2006, Phyllis Granoff, The Forest of Thieves and the Magic Garden, →ISBN. From the entry sum total
  • While most of us see Ronald McDonald as a nice corporate symbol, the 8% of the population that suffers from clownophobia (more properly called coulrophobia) view him as evil incarnate.2003, Richard Crouse, The 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 130. From the entry clownophobia

Meaning of incarnate

  1. adjective Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
  2. adjective Flesh-colored; crimson.
  3. verb To embody in flesh; to invest with a bodily, especially a human, form.

Full definition of incarnate

Questions about incarnate in a sentence

How do you use incarnate in a sentence?
Incarnate is used as an adjective and verb. For example: “For one thing, we virtually decided that these morbidities and the hellish Himalayan Mi-Go were one and the same order of incarnated nightmare.”
What is a short sentence with incarnate?
“SCP-3125 incarnated the following winter.”
What does incarnate mean?
Incarnate means embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.

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