Both Uses
incarnate
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- The flagraising on Iwo Jima became a symbol of the island, the mountain, the battle; of World War II; of the highest ideals of the nation, of valor incarnate.†
Chpt 1. *incarnate = embody
- Suribachi was the devil incarnate, "seeping steam and volcanic fumes," and the Japanese "were rolling grenades down the steep tawny cliffs to burst in the faces of advancing Marines" as the embattled Marines "called for ropes and stretchers to lower the wounded over the sharp cliffs."†
Chpt 12.
Definitions:
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(1)
(incarnate) embody (made real in a material sense) -- especially in the form of a human body, but sometimes figuratively
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)