libricide
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English
Noun
libricide (countable and uncountable, plural libricides)
- (rare) The destruction of books.
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References
- 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 . Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.