Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not carnate or fleshly; not incarnate; not made flesh.
- To divest of flesh or fleshliness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Not fleshly; specifically, not made flesh; not incarnate.
- transitive verb To divest of flesh.
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Examples
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There was something rude and immoral in thrusting these recent facts of his life upon the mind of one who, to him, was so uncarnate as to seem at times impossible as a human wife to any average man.
Jude the Obscure 1896
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There was something rude and immoral in thrusting these recent facts of his life upon the mind of one who, to him, was so uncarnate as to seem at times impossible as a human wife to any average man.
Jude the Obscure 1894
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