All 3 Uses of
incarnate
in
Middlemarch
- Sometimes, when he took off his hat, shaking his head backward, and showing his delicate throat as he sang, he looked like an incarnation of the spring whose spirit filled the air—a bright creature, abundant in uncertain promises.†
Chpt 5 *
- She'll think of me as an incarnate insult to her, from the first moment we—"†
Chpt 8
- The pitiable lot is that of the man who could not call himself a martyr even though he were to persuade himself that the men who stoned him were but ugly passions incarnate—who knows that he is stoned, not for professing the Right, but for not being the man he professed to be.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(incarnate) embody (made real in a material sense) -- especially in the form of a human body, but sometimes figuratively