book-knowledge love

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Knowledge gained by reading books, in distinction from that obtained through observation and experience.

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Examples

  • To the three R's his mother taught him by camp-fire and candle-light, he had added a somewhat miscellaneous book-knowledge; but he was not burdened with what he had gathered.

    CHAPTER 5 2010

  • Recognition of the bi-polar affect aroused by his reading underscores the otherness that inhabits the world of books and the sense of alienation that access to book-knowledge often elicits.

    Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality 2008

  • But she finds that book-knowledge does not make her popular or successful socially.

    Archive 2008-11-01 2008

  • But she finds that book-knowledge does not make her popular or successful socially.

    Between the School Room and the Altar, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) 2008

  • I have known her since she was a mite, with a fat, solemn dumpling of a face … Her parents are of the good old conservative type, not believing in overmuch book-knowledge for a girl, and with an eye to a good husband and mother-in-law for the child.

    CHINA 2007

  • I have known her since she was a mite, with a fat, solemn dumpling of a face … Her parents are of the good old conservative type, not believing in overmuch book-knowledge for a girl, and with an eye to a good husband and mother-in-law for the child.

    CHINA 2007

  • I have known her since she was a mite, with a fat, solemn dumpling of a face … Her parents are of the good old conservative type, not believing in overmuch book-knowledge for a girl, and with an eye to a good husband and mother-in-law for the child.

    CHINA 2007

  • I hope for some kind of osmosis to take place where book-knowledge transfers itself into my waiting brain while I am asleep.

    Bookguilt Sharon Bakar 2005

  • And if I don't read them, I hope for some kind of osmosis to take place where book-knowledge transfers itself into my waiting brain while I am asleep.

    Bookguilt Sharon Bakar 2005

  • And if I don't read them, I hope for some kind of osmosis to take place where book-knowledge transfers itself into my waiting brain while I am asleep.

    Archive 2005-02-01 Sharon Bakar 2005

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