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disincarnate

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dis·in·car·nate  (dsn-kärnt)
adj.
Divested of bodily nature or form; disembodied: disincarnate spirits.
tr.v. (-nt) dis·in·car·nat·ed, dis·in·car·nat·ing, dis·in·car·nates
To divest of bodily nature or form.
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Verb1.disincarnate - make immaterial; remove the real essence of
immaterialise, immaterialize, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize - render immaterial or incorporeal
incarnate - make concrete and real


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Books are solid and locatable; the new electronic versions will be disincarnate, existing on cybershelves.
For Girard, "It is not the disincarnate thought that interests us but the thought embodied in the novels.
In the confessional, guilt-ridden tone that characterizes Madeleine, the French writer admits that he is "amazed at the aberration which led [him] to think that the more ethereal [his] love was, the more worthy it was of her--for [he] was so naive as never to wonder whether or not she would be satisfied with an utterly disincarnate love" (16).
 
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