be incarnate

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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

But who will not feel the force of the position that, granted God was to be incarnate, the story of Christ's incarnation is the noblest and most probable?

From The Things Which Remain An Address To Young Ministers by Goodsell, Daniel A.

This was the name of a village god, and was supposed to be incarnate in the cockle.

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

With these explanations and cautions I will now adduce some examples of gods who have been believed by their worshippers to be incarnate in living human beings, whether men or women.

From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir