Stripping down the origins of ‘naked’
Feb 07, 2019
2 minutes
I was reading C.S. Lewis’s 1960 book “The Four Loves” recently and came across an interesting etymology for . Lewis asserts that the word was originally a past participle: “the naked man was the man who had undergone a process of , that is, of stripping or
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