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Date: 1300-1400
Language: Late Latin
Origin: , past participle of incarnare, from Latin caro 'flesh'

incarnate

1 adjective
     
in‧car‧nate1
1

be evil/beauty/greed etc incarnate

to have an extreme amount of a particular quality:
He is now respectability incarnate.
2 having taken human form:
Jesus, the incarnate son of God
The media cast him as the devil incarnate (=someone very evil).
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