booklearning

See also: book learning and book-learning

English

Noun

booklearning (uncountable)

1. Rare form of book-learning.
   • 1912 October, E. S. M., “A Father to His Freshman Son”, in The Atlantic‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-09:

     His venerable uncle who lived with us — my great uncle — gave me his blessing and told me, I remember, that so far as booklearning went, I could learn as much without going to college. Still he did not discourage my going. He was quite right. I could have got more booklearning out of college than I did get in college, and I suppose that you, too, might get, out, more than you will get, in.

   • 2020, Claire Eliza Bartlett, The Winter Duke, London: Titan Books, →ISBN, page 90:

     "I am pleased to make your acquaintance," she said in precise, carefully enunciated Drysian. She sounded like someone who'd perfected the language through booklearning but hadn't yet learned the art of conversing with contractions.