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Uncarnate vs Incarnate - What's the difference?

uncarnate | incarnate |

As adjectives the difference between uncarnate and incarnate

is that uncarnate is not fleshy; specifically, not made flesh; not incarnate while incarnate is embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified or incarnate can be not in the flesh; spiritual.

As a verb incarnate is

(obsolete|intransitive) to incarn; to become covered with flesh, to heal over.

uncarnate

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Not fleshy; specifically, not made flesh; not incarnate.
    • (Sir Thomas Browne)
    (Webster 1913)

    incarnate

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
  • * Milton
    • Here shalt thou sit incarnate .
  • * Jortin
    • He represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate , sent into the world for the destruction of mankind.
  • (obsolete) Flesh-colored, crimson.
    • (Holland)

    Etymology 2

    From the past participle stem of (etyl) .

    Verb

    (incarnat)
  • (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
    • This essence to incarnate and imbrute, / That to the height of deity aspired.
  • To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "incarnate")

    Related terms

    * carnal * incarnation * reincarnate * reincarnation

    Etymology 3

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not in the flesh; spiritual.
  • * Richardson
    • I fear nothing that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do.

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