Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

inlibration

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-li-bra-tion
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Consequently, […] the question arises in our mind whether […] there was not also in Islam a controversy over the inlibration, that is, the embookment, of the pre-existing Koran in the revealed Koran and also over the problem of whether the revealed Koran had two natures, a divine and a man-made, or only one nature, a man-made nature."
"The Prophet had to be a vessel unstained by external knowledge for the Word's inlibration, just as Mary had to be virgin in order to be a pure vessel for the Word's incarnation."
"Inlibration works in contrast—for Muslims the Qur'an is god, a fixed point as god's creation goes on around it."

Etymology

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

Word Breakdown

Suffix: ation

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does inlibration mean?: The fact of God's being invested in a book (the Qur'an), as opposed to in flesh as held by Christianity.
Where does inlibration come from?: Coined by Harry A Wolfson (1887–1974) on the model of incarnation, from in- + inflected stem of Latin liber (“book”) + -ation.

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