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   incarnate

   adjective

   • 1. (especially of a deity or spirit) embodied in human form: "God incarnate"
   • ▪ represented in the most fundamental or extreme form: "here is capitalism incarnate"

   verb

   • 1. embody or represent (a deity or spirit) in human form: "the idea that God incarnates himself in man"
   • ▪ put (a concept or quality) into concrete form: "a desire to make things which will incarnate their personality"
   • ▪ (of a person) be the living embodiment of (a quality): "the man who incarnates the pain of the entire community"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin incarnat- ‘made flesh’, from the verb incarnare, from in- ‘into’ + caro, carn- ‘flesh’.

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