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Basically, can I said something like this?

But what really turned heads were her hands. They looked incredibly delicate and soft, so much that some started believing they were the reincarnated hands of a Goddess.

(the passage above is describing the hands of a teenager).

For some reason, it sounds strange to me.

Is it OK to use the word like the example above? Is there's a better one?

reincarnated according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

1 a1 a : the action of reincarnating : the state of being reincarnated bb : rebirth in new bodies or forms of life; especiallyespecially : a rebirth of a soul in a new human body

22 : a fresh embodiment See reincarnation

defined for English-language learners » See reincarnation defined for kids »

Basically, can I said something like this?

But what really turned heads were her hands. They looked incredibly delicate and soft, so much that some started believing they were the reincarnated hands of a Goddess.

(the passage above is describing the hands of a teenager).

For some reason, it sounds strange to me.

Is it OK to use the word like the example above? Is there's a better one?

reincarnated according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

1 a : the action of reincarnating : the state of being reincarnated b : rebirth in new bodies or forms of life; especially : a rebirth of a soul in a new human body

2 : a fresh embodiment See reincarnation

defined for English-language learners » See reincarnation defined for kids »

Basically, can I said something like this?

But what really turned heads were her hands. They looked incredibly delicate and soft, so much that some started believing they were the reincarnated hands of a Goddess.

(the passage above is describing the hands of a teenager).

For some reason, it sounds strange to me.

Is it OK to use the word like the example above? Is there's a better one?

reincarnated according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

1 a : the action of reincarnating : the state of being reincarnated b : rebirth in new bodies or forms of life; especially : a rebirth of a soul in a new human body

2 : a fresh embodiment

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wyc
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Basically, can I said something like this?

But what really turned heads were her hands. They looked incredibly delicate and soft, so much that some started believing they were the reincarnated hands of a Goddess.

(the passage above is describing the hands of a teenager).

For some reason, it sounds strange to me.

Is it OK to use the word like the example above? Is there's a better one?

reincarnated according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

1 a : the action of reincarnating : the state of being reincarnated b : rebirth in new bodies or forms of life; especially : a rebirth of a soul in a new human body

2 : a fresh embodiment See reincarnation

defined for English-language learners » See reincarnation defined for kids »

Basically, can I said something like this?

But what really turned heads were her hands. They looked incredibly delicate and soft, so much that some started believing they were the reincarnated hands of a Goddess.

For some reason, it sounds strange to me.

Is it OK to use the word like the example above? Is there's a better one?

Basically, can I said something like this?

But what really turned heads were her hands. They looked incredibly delicate and soft, so much that some started believing they were the reincarnated hands of a Goddess.

(the passage above is describing the hands of a teenager).

For some reason, it sounds strange to me.

Is it OK to use the word like the example above? Is there's a better one?

reincarnated according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

1 a : the action of reincarnating : the state of being reincarnated b : rebirth in new bodies or forms of life; especially : a rebirth of a soul in a new human body

2 : a fresh embodiment See reincarnation

defined for English-language learners » See reincarnation defined for kids »

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wyc
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Can I use the word "reincarnated" for a body part?

Basically, can I said something like this?

But what really turned heads were her hands. They looked incredibly delicate and soft, so much that some started believing they were the reincarnated hands of a Goddess.

For some reason, it sounds strange to me.

Is it OK to use the word like the example above? Is there's a better one?