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discarnate

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dis·car·nate  (ds-kärnt, -nt)
adj.
Having no material body or form: a discarnate spirit.

[dis- + (in)carnate.]

dis·carnate n.


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In Christian tradition, where the Fall has theological standing--where it is seen in hindsight as a human disaster of such magnitude as to require the Redemption, the discarnate God's taking flesh in a woman's womb--it should be, if anything, clearer that the effects of the Fall cannot be sidestepped.
His persona offers the "picture" of a "fallen" grandfather, the image of "armies of people in the abandoned home, discarnate," and discussions of a place where "people no longer live in flesh," where "the dead come down wooden stairs at midnight.
 
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