Incarnate: Meaning 'Embodied in Flesh' – Religious and General Usage

Incarnate (adj./v.) from Latin incarnare (in- + caro, carnis = flesh).

  • Theological: The Incarnation — Christian doctrine that the Son of God became fully human in Jesus Christ (God incarnate).
  • General: Embodied in physical form; personifying a quality. "Evil incarnate," "patience incarnate."
  • Verb: To give bodily form to. "The artist incarnated the myth in marble."

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