tahrif means the belief that alterations were made to the previous revelations of God Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 99 out of 100.
Why this word is great
TAHRIF — [Noun] The Islamic theological accusation that the texts or essential meanings of prior divine revelations have been deliberately and illegitimately altered. Borrowed from Arabic تَحْرِيف (taḥrīf), from the root ḥ-r-f, meaning 'to change, to turn, to distort'. Unlike *naskh*, the divinely sanctioned abrogation of a ruling, or *ta'wil*, the legitimate work of allegorical interpretation, tahrif is the charge of a sacred text betrayed. It is the frayed edge of a parchment made to lie, the whispered translation that smuggles heresy into doctrine, the erasure of a name that once held grace—a word that confesses the profound anxiety that even the Word of God is not safe from our hands.
noun
- the belief that alterations were made to the previous revelations of God