incarnate
/ɪnˈkɑːɹ.nɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.99 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
adj
Not in the flesh; spiritual.
Example Sentences
- "Here shalt thou sit incarnate."
- "1751-1753, John Jortin, Remarks on Ecclesiastical History He […] represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction of mankind."
- "Yards of Turkey silk incarnate."
- "For one thing, we virtually decided that these morbidities and the hellish Himalayan Mi-Go were one and the same order of incarnated nightmare."
- "Not all of the soul can incarnate into a body; the part which is left above is the psyche."
- "SCP-3125 incarnated the following winter."
Etymology
First attested in 1395, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English incarnat(e) (“(of God or Christ) embodied in human form or flesh, incarnate; provided with new tissues, healed; (with devel, in curses) bloody”), borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarnātus, perfect passive participle of incarnor (“to be made flesh, become incarnate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- + Latin carō (“flesh”, carn- in its oblique stem) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, in- + Latin carn- + -ate.
Origin
- Source language: Middle English
- First known use: First attested in 1395
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪnˈkɑːɹ.nɪt/
- British English: /ɪnˈkɑːneɪt/