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Definition of "disincarnate" []

  • Divested of bodily nature or form; disembodied: disincarnate spirits. (adjective)
  • To divest of bodily nature or form. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "disincarnate" in a sentence
  • "My choice example is Mother Theresa, who I never met, but whose demeanour in pictures and on TV conveys to me an intense radiance of pure, disincarnate evil!"
  • "The scientific cast of their abstruse jargon, the disincarnate focus on theory, the sheer some said willful difficulty of the language both soothed and fascinated me."
  • "A vitally important aspect of the practice of shamanism is understanding right relationship with power, and the acts and implements of power, such as sage, ceder, feathers, the drum, ceremony, disincarnate spirits, totem animals and allies."