Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Knowledge gained by reading books, in distinction from that obtained through observation and experience.
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Examples
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To the three R's his mother taught him by camp-fire and candle-light, he had added a somewhat miscellaneous book-knowledge; but he was not burdened with what he had gathered.
CHAPTER 5 2010
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Recognition of the bi-polar affect aroused by his reading underscores the otherness that inhabits the world of books and the sense of alienation that access to book-knowledge often elicits.
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But she finds that book-knowledge does not make her popular or successful socially.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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But she finds that book-knowledge does not make her popular or successful socially.
Between the School Room and the Altar, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) 2008
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I have known her since she was a mite, with a fat, solemn dumpling of a face … Her parents are of the good old conservative type, not believing in overmuch book-knowledge for a girl, and with an eye to a good husband and mother-in-law for the child.
CHINA 2007
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I have known her since she was a mite, with a fat, solemn dumpling of a face … Her parents are of the good old conservative type, not believing in overmuch book-knowledge for a girl, and with an eye to a good husband and mother-in-law for the child.
CHINA 2007
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I have known her since she was a mite, with a fat, solemn dumpling of a face … Her parents are of the good old conservative type, not believing in overmuch book-knowledge for a girl, and with an eye to a good husband and mother-in-law for the child.
CHINA 2007
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I hope for some kind of osmosis to take place where book-knowledge transfers itself into my waiting brain while I am asleep.
Bookguilt Sharon Bakar 2005
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And if I don't read them, I hope for some kind of osmosis to take place where book-knowledge transfers itself into my waiting brain while I am asleep.
Bookguilt Sharon Bakar 2005
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And if I don't read them, I hope for some kind of osmosis to take place where book-knowledge transfers itself into my waiting brain while I am asleep.
Archive 2005-02-01 Sharon Bakar 2005
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