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Heavenletter #3973

Posted September 28th, 2011 by Luus

Dear Gloria,

Can you tell me what the word "inflagration" in this paragraph means? It does not seem to exist .... yet... !

When you are angry, you are that puffed-up tempest in a teapot. Your sense of righteousness is a telltale sign of an inflagration. How honorable-seeming is your righteousness. You are on fire. Of course, you are right. You are always right. From your point of view, of course, you are conclusively right.

Thanks.
Luus

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Beloved Luus, The only

On September 28th, 2011 Gloria Wen... says:

Beloved Luus,

The only definition I could find was from a dictionary called Ninja Dictionary, and the definition was in French!

le Littré (1880) △
INFLAGRATION (s. f.)

Terme didactique. État d'un corps qui prend feu et se consume. L'inflagration du cadmium.

ÉTYMOLOGIE

Lat. inflagrare, brûler au dedans, de in, en, et flagrare, brûler (voy. FLAGRANT).

On Google, I was also asked if I meant Conflagration, which, I believe, means fire.

I have packed away somewhere this huge old dictionary which has everything in it. Alas, I don't know where this book is. I am going through things, and I would be surprised not to find the word there. In any case, inflagration was meant to mean fire.

I believe that in Alice in Wonderland, one of the people says: "A word can mean anything I want it to mean!"

You translate from English to Dutch. In a sense, I translate from a very subtle sense of hearing into English, and, sometimes, I may not hear perfectly. I am sure that God doesn't make mistakes.

For whatever it's worth or not worth, inflagration sounds right to me and conflagration doesn't! At the same time, I see right now that the computer program is underlining inflagration in wavy red which means they don't recognize it as a real word.

Thank you for pointing this out, beloved Luus. God bless you.