be incarnate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

This kind of teaching requires that the truth being taught be incarnate in the relationship between men, which was what God did in Christ.

From Herein is Love A Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Love in Its Bearing on Personality, Parenthood, Teaching, and All Other Human Relationships. by Howe, Reuel L.

The music may be said to be incarnate in the roll of paper which is ready to be passed through the instrument.

From Life and Matter A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' by Lodge, Oliver, Sir

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

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