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biblioclasts

biblioclasts is the plural of biblioclast.

Meaning of biblioclast

Noun

biblioclast (plural biblioclasts)

  1. One who destroys books, especially the Bible.
    • [I]t is a serious matter when nature produces such a wicked old biblioclast as John Bagford, one of the founders of the Antiquarian Society, who in the beginning of the last century went about the country, from library to library, tearing away title-pages from rare books of all sizes.1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 96

Questions about biblioclasts

What is biblioclasts the plural of?
Biblioclasts is the plural of biblioclast.

Words near biblioclasts in the dictionary

  1. bibliocides
  2. biblioclasm
  3. biblioclasms
  4. biblioclast
  5. biblioclastic
  6. biblioclasts
  7. bibliocracy
  8. bibliodiversity
  9. Bibliodrama
  10. bibliodramatic
  11. bibliodramatist

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