discarnate
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- discarnation noun
Etymology
Origin of discarnate
Example Sentences
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Two years ago, he announced $1 million in grants from his Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies for research "into contact and communication with post-mortem or discarnate consciousness."
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2023
“If we see a shadow going through one wall and through another, we don’t know for sure if it was a discarnate human spirit or E.T.,” he said.
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2021
We already inhabit a world in which we’re subject to the opaque judgments of discarnate algorithms with eyes and ears everywhere and bodies nowhere.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019
Lying on his back, staring at a ceiling he could not see, Ben felt discarnate, a voiceless body buried accidentally, smelling the top of the coffin for the first time.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
He moved slowly, a sort of gray wraith almost discarnate and apart from things of the earth.
From In the Heart of a Fool by White, William Allen
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