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See also: book-burning
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]book burning (countable and uncountable, plural book burnings)
- (literally) A mass burning of books, intended as a form of political and/or religious censorship.
- (by extension, idiomatic) Any mass destruction, removal, or recalling of books, motion pictures, broadcasts, or electronic works as a form of censorship, especially motivated by religious or political objections to the material.
- 1987, “Exhuming McCarthy”, in Document (R.E.M. No. 5), performed by R.E.M.:
- Exhuming McCarthy (meet me at the book burning, meet me at the book burning)
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[edit]book burning
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