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  • noun rare destruction of books, especially of the Bible

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  • Destruction of books, or of the Bible.

    May 12, 2008

  • ...house, garden, even part of the orchard was gone, or blasted and scorched, gone, all gone in that sudden infernal cataclysm, that biblioclasm.

    - Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola

    July 30, 2008

  • *relieved*

    July 30, 2008