Both Uses of
incarnate
in
Jane Eyre
- I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination; but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they neither had nor could have sympathy with anything in me, and should have shunned them as one would fire, lightning, or anything else that is bright but antipathetic.
Chpt 12incarnate = embodied
- What crime was this that lived incarnate in this sequestered mansion, and could neither be expelled nor subdued by the owner?
Chpt 20 *incarnate = made real in a material sense
Definition:
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(incarnate) embody (made real in a material sense) -- especially in the form of a human body, but sometimes figuratively