incarnadine
/ɪnˈkɑɹnəˌdiːn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.27 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Incarnadine, or Incarnate, that is of a bright Carnation or Fleſh Colour, or of the Colour of a Damask-Roſe."
- "Wild and dishevelled, thy luxuriant hair / Falls scattered o'er thy throbbing bosom, fair / As snow incarnadine with morning's ray;— [...]"
- "The bandages on his hands – cerise and incarnadine, opalescent and viridian – were grotesqueries that only emphasised his stature."
- "His poem, however, is meetly enough entituled—Christ Crucified! But the Rev. William Ellis Wall is worse than [Pontius] Pilate. That "wretch," as this miserable calls the Roman governor, was careful to wash his hands of all guilt in the transaction; but the Rev. William Ellis Wall holds forth triumphantly his two unhallowed and incarnadine maniples of reeking digits, boasting of the infamous achievement in a most egregious preface."
- ""Basically I am a very good person." This from the latest serial killer–destined for the chair, they say–who, with incarnadine axe, recently dispatched half a dozen registered nurses in Texas."
- "Let the wine incarnadine, / In crystal goblets gleaming, / Be the sign, O muse divine, / Of golden moments teeming."
Etymology
The adjective is derived from French incarnadin, incarnadine, from Italian incarnadino, a variant of incarnatino (“carnation; flesh colour”), from incarnato (“embodied, incarnate”) + -ino (suffix forming adjectives denoting composition, colour, or other qualities). Incarnato is derived from Ecclesiastical Latin and Late Latin incarnātus (“having been made incarnate”), the perfect passive participle of incarnō (“to become or make incarnate; to make into flesh”), from in- (suffix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + Latin carō (“flesh, meat; body”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). By surface analysis, in- + Latin carn- + -ade + -ine. The noun and verb are derived from the adjective. Adjective senses 2 and 3 (“of the blood-red colour of raw flesh; (figurative) bloostained, bloody”) and noun sense 2 (“blood-red colour of raw flesh”) are due to William Shakespeare’s use of the word as a verb in Macbeth (c. 1606): see the quotation below.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪnˈkɑɹnəˌdiːn/
- British English: /ɪnˈkɑːnədiːn/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more incarnadine (comparative)
most incarnadine (superlative)
incarnadines (plural)
incarnadines (present, singular)
incarnadining (participle, present)
incarnadined (participle, past)
incarnadined (past)