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- noun rare
destruction ofbooks , especially of theBible
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Examples
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Did some angry computer, intent on biblioclasm, assault the manuscript just before publication?
A Sleuth Goes to the Library Charles Harrington Elster 2009
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Surely a Kindle is biblioclasm by another name, a simultaneous sexing up and dumbing down of the quiet, introspective pastime of picking up a book and read it?
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Surely a Kindle is biblioclasm by another name, a simultaneous sexing up and dumbing down of the quiet, introspective pastime of picking up a book and read it?
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
whichbe commented on the word biblioclasm
Destruction of books, or of the Bible.
May 12, 2008
yarb commented on the word biblioclasm
...house, garden, even part of the orchard was gone, or blasted and scorched, gone, all gone in that sudden infernal cataclysm, that biblioclasm.
- Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola
July 30, 2008
bilby commented on the word biblioclasm
*relieved*
July 30, 2008