incarnate
adjective/ɪnˈkɑːnət/
/ɪnˈkɑːrnət/
usually after nouns (formal)- in human form
- The leader seemed the devil incarnate.
- My aunt is generosity incarnate.
Word Originlate Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin incarnat- ‘made flesh’, from the verb incarnare, from in- ‘into’ + caro, carn- ‘flesh’.Definitions on the go
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