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incarnate
adjective /ɪnˈkɑːnət/ [often postpos.]
  • 1 (of a deity or spirit) embodied in human form.
  • 2 represented in the ultimate or most extreme form: capitalism incarnate.
verb /ˈɪnkɑːneɪt, -ˈkɑːneɪt/ 
  • 1 embody or represent (a deity or spirit) in human form.
  • 2 be the living embodiment of (a quality).
– origin ME: from eccles. L. incarnat-, incarnare ‘make flesh’, from L. in- ‘into’ + caro, carn- ‘flesh’.



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