Citations:grapholagnia

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English citations of grapholagnia

  • 1985, D. J. Enright, A mania for sentences[1], →ISBN, page 154:
    there is not much aischrology (‘ “dirty” language’) in her Dictionary — she herself, by the way, is defined as the daughter of the violinist Jascha Heifetz — nor does she pander to grapholagnia or ‘a more than passing interest in obscene pictures’.
  • 1996, Jacob Weinstein, “The Polysyllabi”, in The North American Review[2]:
    They sit home evenings, going over their postcard collection, discussing engastration and grapholagnia.
  • 2000 August 1, Rik Isensee, The God Squad: (A Spoof on the Ex-Gay Movement)[3], iUniverse, →ISBN, page 188:
    Then he continued in his usual obscure language: “Of course, coprology—the study of dirty pictures—does not necessarily reflect grapholagnia—an intense interest in obscenity. It's all in the service of hamartiology—the study of sin.
  • 2018 December 6, In Periculus Audax, Connaître Sacral Olo: The Meaning of a Metaphorical Life Companion: the Censored Edition[4], AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
    This is the chapter for grapholagnia, icolagnia, pictophilia, and scoptolagnia