be incarnate

Example Sentences

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It is held to be incarnate in each climate, culture and race.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was the name of a village god in Savaii supposed to be incarnate in a man who walked about but was never visible to the people of the place.

From Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by Turner, George

And as the love consumed and soon would be incarnate he closed his eyes.

From Oberheim (Voices) by Leadem, Christopher

For generations the Verplancks have been what people expected them to be, incarnate formulas of etiquette and timid living.

From The Collectors by Mather, Frank Jewett

Aitu langi was the name of a village god in another place, and supposed to be incarnate in the owl.

From Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by Turner, George