Sample Sentences for
incarnate
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    It is John that explicitly introduces Jesus as God incarnate.  (source)
    incarnate = embodied
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    He's enjoying this, I thought bitterly, he's imagining himself Justice incarnate, balancing the scales.  (source)
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    I had read of such hideous incarnate demons.  (source)
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    He had decided to live there because the view was so beautiful, because, from his vantage point, he seemed to be looking out on to the incarnation of a divine being.  (source)
    incarnation = made real in a material sense
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    And truly Buck was the Fiend incarnate, raging at their heels and dragging them down like deer as they raced through the trees.  (source)
    incarnate = embodied
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    If the gods were incarnations of the mountains and rivers around us, or whether they drew their power from those sources, I couldn't say.†  (source)
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    But I wouldn't have had to get incarnated in an American body if I hadn't met that lady.†  (source)
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    I state the extreme case, of course; but what is true of the great man who incarnates the philosophic consciousness of Life and the woman who incarnates its fecundity, is true in some degree of all geniuses and all women.†  (source)
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    Of them standing among them, one lifts to the light a west-bred face, To him the hereditary countenance bequeath'd both mother's and father's, His first parts substances, earth, water, animals, trees, Built of the common stock, having room for far and near, Used to dispense with other lands, incarnating this land, Attracting it body and soul to himself, hanging on its neck with incomparable love, Plunging his seminal muscle into its merits and demerits, Making its cities, beginnings, events, diversities, wars, vocal in him, Making its rivers, lakes, bays, embouchure in him, Mississippi with yearly freshets and changing chutes, Columbia, Niagara, Hudson, spending themse†  (source)
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    I felt disincarnate, cut loose from myself.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disincarnate reverses the meaning of incarnate. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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    I could feel at work within me a miraculous disincarnation;†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disincarnation reverses the meaning of incarnation. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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    Even in its first primitive incarnation, the scope of the simulation was staggering.†  (source)
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    What crime was this that lived incarnate in this sequestered mansion, and could neither be expelled nor subdued by the owner?  (source)
    incarnate = made real in a material sense
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