Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as bibliomaniac. I. D'Israeli; De Quincey.
Examples
“a "bibliomane" who in his dreams supposes himself to be purchasing "early editions on vellum" for "trifling" sums (18). close window”
“There is plenty to interest not only the Catholic, but the Lutheran, Anglican, Presbyterian or Orthodox Christian, provided he is an antiquarian and bibliomane like me.”
“He was a bibliomane as they ` re called, somebody who is maniacally obsessed with old books.”
“And the first fool of the whole navy, the fool at the helm, was the bibliomane, the book fool.”
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
“Bibliophobe, a hater of books: Bibliotaph, a burier of books -- one who hides or conceals them: Bibliomaniac, or bibliomane, one who has a mania or passion for collecting books.”
“-- "A bibliomane is an indiscriminate accumulator, who blunders faster than he buys, cock-brained and purse-heavy.”
“Suppose I am a bibliomane and someone comes to me with a title I have coveted unsuccessfully for years.”
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
“I was first introduced to Davidson, a three-time winner of the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger, decades ago by a fellow bibliomane with a penchant for English writers.”
“The answer is the usual one for the over-acquisitive bibliomane.”
“Le bibliomane ne connait ordinairement les livres que par leur titre, leur frontispice, et leur date; il s'attache aux bonnes editiones et les poursuit à quelque titre que ce soit; la relieure le seduit aussi, soit par son ancienneté, soit par sa beauté, "&c.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bibliomane’.
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Favorites
machiavellian, mercurial, deus ex machina, synecdoche, litotes, phallic, freudian, metonymy, chrestomathy, falsifiable, gestalt, truthiness and 211 more...
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wordhoard
dilatory, ataraxia, hermit, cabana, hut, dome, vestigial, porcine, crapulous, usufruct, curmudgeon, bombastic and 229 more...
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Favorite Words II
antipode, subsumed, maladroit, quidnunc, tonsorial, savvy, vignette, retrograde, flummoxed, ne plus ultra, icosahedron, plethora and 138 more...
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Wordnik Notebooks
All the words from the cover of the Wordnik notebook.
A few words appear twice: frass, cruet, luna, thalweg, and possibly some more.
Careful: Contains spoilers!spilth, frass, fomite, rux, worricow, alizarin, mundungus, parthenocarpy, jib, whinyard, weisure, nimiety and 217 more...
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die6die's Words
somnambulist, obfuscate, hirsute, kleptobibliomania, serendipitous, dissuade, duplicitous, zounds, lo, unleash, fortnight, thaumaturgy and 278 more...
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Biblio-Words
biblioclast, bibliognost, biblioklept, bibliokleptomaniac, bibliolatry, bibliomancy, bibliomane, bibliopegy, bibliophagist, bibliophobia, bibliopoesy, bibliopole and 19 more...
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Balsamic's Words
vignette, itinerant, maladies, hagiographic, dour, ethereal, credence, solemnity, provenance, vestigial, dissonance, melancholia and 221 more...
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words to learn
ecclesiarch, decennium, decennary, galactosemia, tautogeneity, quadrature, vellum, wainwright, addax, quadrumane, omnisentient, glyphography and 75 more...
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Bibliomania and related conditions
All words and definitions on this list are taken from the "Bibliolexicon" on page 134 of A Passion for Books, edited by Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan (1999).
bibliobibule, biblioclast, bibliodemon, bibliognoste, bibliographe, biblioklept, bibliolater, bibliolestes, bibliomancer, bibliomane, bibliomaniac, bibliophage and 6 more...
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mako's Words
fulminate, error, biblioclast, bibliomane, bibliomania, bone folder, beethoven
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sionnach Someone who accumulates books indiscriminately Dec 22, 2010