Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a bibliophile or book-fancier.
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- adjective Having, or pertaining to,
bibliophilia (the love ofbooks ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to bibliophiles
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Examples
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Even in bibliophilic, densely-populated Cambridge, book delivery seems like it will have as much value to the store as marketing as actual service.
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Even in bibliophilic, densely-populated Cambridge, book delivery seems like it will have as much value to the store as marketing as actual service.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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The foregrounding of the book-object in bibliophilic writing in fact tends to activate reversals and inversions suggesting that objects may constitute subjects rather than the other way around.
Bibliographic Romance: Bibliophilia and the Book Object 2004
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Dibdin's reading of the French Revolution hinges on the question of its way with books, pointing to what we might call a bibliophilic politics that cuts across stock political lines to produce a certain ambivalence.
Bibliographic Romance: Bibliophilia and the Book Object 2004
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"The Marriage Plot" is even more emphatically bibliophilic.
Sense & Semiotics Sam Sacks 2011
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Scowling, hands on hips, she surveyed the bibliophilic excess.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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Scowling, hands on hips, she surveyed the bibliophilic excess.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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Scowling, hands on hips, she surveyed the bibliophilic excess.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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I guess that's because I'm still anticipating a fair number of books to arrive in the mail, so my bibliophilic nature is in a state of satiety.
Chasing Tale in March: Quirk Classics, Jonathan Maberry, Dan Simmons ... 2010
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"Codex takes its place on the shelf of self-referential, bibliophilic page turners like The Name of the Rose, Possession and A Case of Curiosities, and it's as entertaining as any of them."
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