be incarnate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

And after the same manner the Nature is also said to be incarnate, not that it is changed to flesh, but that it assumed the nature of flesh.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

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