be incarnate
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It is held to be incarnate in each climate, culture and race.
From Time Magazine Archive
The most renowned was the Hapi or Apis bull of Memphis, in whom Ptah was said to be incarnate, and who was Osirified and became the Osir-hapi.
From The Religion of Ancient Egypt by Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir
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
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
