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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incarnate.

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Examples

  • For little by little the printed word incarnates itself in power, and in ways undreamed of makes itself felt.

    Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

  • In the John Carter tales, a paralyzed Civil War hero "incarnates" in a facsimile of his own body on Mars, where he fights with and against red and green-skinned Martians, falls in love with a red princess, and encounters many strange beasts.

    Chris McGowan: Immersion in Pandora: The Virtual World of Avatar 2010

  • In the John Carter tales, a paralyzed Civil War hero "incarnates" in a facsimile of his own body on Mars, where he fights with and against red and green-skinned Martians, falls in love with a red princess, and encounters many strange beasts.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2010

  • Everything from its design to it decoration 'incarnates' the Christian truth.

    Standing on My Head 2008

  • Weininger incarnates his argument, as a representative of the linkage of misogyny and anti-Semitism by way of castration fears: “Being a neurotic, Weininger was completely under the sway of his infantile complexes.”

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • He incarnates love, and rears right up in meeting and tells them so.

    CHAPTER XXIII 2010

  • He neither loves nor hates; he is obsessed with the Good, which he believes he incarnates.

    Tintin & Co. Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

  • Weininger incarnates his argument, as a representative of the linkage of misogyny and anti-Semitism by way of castration fears: “Being a neurotic, Weininger was completely under the sway of his infantile complexes.”

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • The later incarnates all the film's characters (male and female) with humor, vigor and focus (which must be quite demanding considering that for him the film is a succession of monologues).

    Anne Couillaud: Remaking Kubrick and Fassbinder: Artist Brice Dellsperger Reveals New Opus of His 28 Parts Oeuvre Anne Couillaud 2011

  • The later incarnates all the film's characters (male and female) with humor, vigor and focus (which must be quite demanding considering that for him the film is a succession of monologues).

    Anne Couillaud: Remaking Kubrick and Fassbinder: Artist Brice Dellsperger Reveals New Opus of His 28 Parts Oeuvre Anne Couillaud 2011

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