libricide

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Noun

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libricide (countable and uncountable, plural libricides)

  1. (rare) The destruction of books.

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References

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  • Bosmajian, H. (2006). Burning Books. London: McFarland.
  • Knuth, R. (2003). Libricide. Westport, CT: Praeger.
  • Knuth, R. (2006). Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction. Westpot, CT: Praeger.
  • The Oxford English dictionary [electronic resource]. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.