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, and was supposed to be incarnate in the cockle.
From Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by Turner, George
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
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
He will be the principle which transforms and regenerates them, but there is no need for him to be incarnate.
From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene
