discarnate

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There must be, moreover, what one may call a discarnate status--an order, that is, of relationships and activities in which discarnate personality realizes and expresses itself.

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  1. adjective Having no material body or form: a discarnate spirit.

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  • The Road to Immortality, a book supposedly channeled by the medium Geraldine Cummins from the discarnate psychical researcher F.W.H. Myers. —  Michael Prescott's Blog
  • "I haven't figured out how you incarnate the Gospel in a discarnate place," he said. —  AroundTheCapitol.com
  • If God discarnate (the Father, the Holy Spirit) or God incarnate (the Son) is a free agent, in the libertarian sense, then it's possible for God to do wrong. —  Triablogue
  • This being the case, we may readily see how difficult it would be for a discarnate spirit to manipulate another organism; and how likely it would be to allow certain tricks and habits of the medium herself to slip through, without being able to control them. —  The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
  • Or if, perplexed by death and with no faith strong enough to pierce that veil through a persuasion of the necessity of immortality established in the very nature of things, you are offered a demonstration of immortality through the voices and presences of the discarnate, then, once more, you have something concrete enough, if only you were sure of it, to settle every doubt. —  Modern Religious Cults and Movements
 

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  1. dis- + (in)carnate.

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  1. from Latin dis-privative + Late Latin carnatus, of flesh, fleshy, fat, corpulent, from Latin caro (carn-), flesh. Cf. incarnate.
 

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