Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One affected with bibliomania.
- Affected by or pertaining to bibliomania; book-mad. Also
bibliomanian .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who has a mania for books.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who is
obsessed with owning valuablebooks .
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Examples
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I hesitated a moment; but having heard that such communications were usually made by the visitors of show places, I answered: "Oh! a very venerable one, if your master is what they call a bibliomaniac -- Caxton."
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I hesitated a moment; but having heard that such communications were usually made by the visitors of show places, I answered: "Oh! a very venerable one, if your master is what they call a bibliomaniac -- Caxton."
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The bibliomaniac, that is, remakes the literary heritage as his cabinet library.
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Called a "baby bibliomaniac" as a child, he acquired his first book at auction, the fable "Reynard the Fox," at age 11.
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I am a reformed bibliomaniac; a decade ago I would be easily spending $100 a week on books.
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Hard not like a man who describes himself as "an antediluvian, bibliomaniac, and curmudgeon."
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I'm a quotationaholic, sort of like a bibliomaniac (which I also am) but for quotations.
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I'm a quotationaholic, sort of like a bibliomaniac (which I also am) but for quotations.
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I would be a cross between a bibliodemon and bibliomaniac.
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But the bibliomaniac may in fact have supplied his contemporaries with a resource for thinking about how booksor, better still, the canon (that "imaginary totality of works" referenced by John Guillory, who cautions us against the ideological misprision involved in thinking that it might be materialized anywhere) might be more firmly attached to persons, might be rendered personal effects.
sionnach commented on the word bibliomaniac
A book lover gone mad
December 22, 2010