Etymology

inlibration

I1N1L1I1B3R1A1T1I1O1N1

Today it means: The fact of God's being invested in a book (the Qur'an), as opposed to in flesh as held by Christianity. Full definition →

First used 20th c.Latin liber
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · derived fromliber“book”
  2. English todayinlibration

Coined by Harry A Wolfson (1887–1974) on the model of incarnation, from in- + inflected stem of Latin liber (“book”) + -ation.

Words from the same roots

Latinliber all →

libreliberlibrettodelibrationliberformlibricidelibriformordoliberalism

First known use, by meaning

  • from 20th c. The fact of God's being invested in a book (the Qur'an), as opposed to in flesh as held by Christianity.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.