Incarnate vs Incarnation - What's the difference?
incarnate | incarnation | Related terms |
Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
* Milton
* Jortin
(obsolete) Flesh-colored, crimson.
(obsolete) To incarn; to become covered with flesh, to heal over.
To make carnal, to reduce the spiritual nature of.
To embody in flesh, invest with a bodily, especially a human, form.
* Milton
To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea.
Not in the flesh; spiritual.
* Richardson
An incarnate being or form.
* Jeffrey
* F. W. Robertson
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, title= A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
An assumption of human form or nature.
A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like
The act of incarnating.
The state of being incarnated.
(obsolete) A rosy or red colour; flesh colour; carnation.
(medicine, obsolete) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.
Incarnation is a related term of incarnate.
In obsolete terms the difference between incarnate and incarnation
is that incarnate is flesh-colored, crimson while incarnation is a rosy or red colour; flesh colour; carnation.As an adjective incarnate
is embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.As a verb incarnate
is to incarn; to become covered with flesh, to heal over.As a noun incarnation is
an incarnate being or form.As a proper noun Incarnation is
the doctrine that the second person of the Trinity assumed human form in the person of Jesus Christ and is fully divine and fully human.incarnate
English
Etymology 1
From .Adjective
(-)- Here shalt thou sit incarnate .
- He represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate , sent into the world for the destruction of mankind.
- (Holland)
Etymology 2
From the past participle stem of (etyl) .Verb
(incarnat)- This essence to incarnate and imbrute, / That to the height of deity aspired.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "incarnate")Etymology 3
Adjective
(-)- I fear nothing that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do.
Anagrams
* ----incarnation
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Noun
(en noun)- She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead.
- The very incarnation of selfishness.
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