Practice of destroying, often ceremoniously, books or other written material.
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Examples for "libricide"
Examples for "libricide"
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From maps to book burnings and fiduciary issue to forgery, he transcends the page.
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No, I'm afraid all of the educational institutions were razed with the first siege, right before the mass book burnings.
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Book burnings have even been a feature of protests in North America.
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In May, Joseph Goebbels organised another book burning by university students.
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But this wiping history out with a swoop is akin to Nazi book burning.
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And that German accent of his lends a historical allusion to the practice of book burning.
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However, I doubt if many of those who attend the book burning will ever have read the book.
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DVD extras will include a " book burning Yule log," a video advent calendar and alternate endings.
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Even the ANC Youth League planned a " book burning", but senior ranks of the party have distanced themselves from this.
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Aspiring authors with a book burning a hole in their desk drawer might want to take note of this latest literary event.
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Earlier this year, a church in Pennsylvania held an old-fashioned book burning to destroy Harry Potter books and other "offensive materials."
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A book on Mountjoy's baggage train inventory on the route march through Leix no doubt cries out for a return of illiteracy; book burning even.
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Or take Altes Rathaus in Bonn, a square where a large Nazi book burning took place on 10 May 1933.
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Book burnings have even been a feature of protests in North America.
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From maps to book burnings and fiduciary issue to forgery, he transcends the page.
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No, I'm afraid all of the educational institutions were razed with the first siege, right before the mass book burnings.