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One with a passionate enthusiasm for books
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bibliomaniac
Word definitions for bibliomaniac in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1816; see bibliomania .\n\nA bibliomaniac must be carefully distinguished from a bibliophile. The latter has not yet freed himself from the idea that books are meant to be read. [Walsh]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bibliomaniac \Bib`li*o*ma"ni*ac\, n. One who has a mania for books. -- a. Relating to a bibliomaniac.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A person who is obsessed with owning valuable books.
Usage examples of bibliomaniac.
They had a haunting fear that he was conspiring with himself against them, and no man, not even a callous school-master or a confirmed bibliomaniac, enjoys feeling that he is the object of a conspiracy.
It does not affect the fact that I was thinking about the Bibliomaniac and Mr.
I was saying to the Bibliomaniac this morning, your buckwheat cakes are, to my mind, the very highest development of our modern civilization, and to have even one of them wasted seems to me to be a crime against Nature herself, for which a second, third, or fourth shaking up of this earth would be an inadequate punishment.
Idiot, with a look of surprise on his face, which seemed to indicate that in his opinion the Bibliomaniac was very dull-witted not to have solved the problem for himself.
When the old bibliomaniac died, aged eighty, Halliwell was energetic in repairing the roof of Middle Hill, finding a buyer for it, and breaking the entail on the estate.
I am acquainted with an illustrious bibliomaniac who may be able to read, but who is most certainly unable to sign his own name.
His father, bibliomaniac though he was, would never treat a man or a woman with decency, who mentioned Shakspeare to him, nor would he acknowledge to his dying day any excellence in that divine poet beyond a happy way of putting words together.
We must, however, be honest enough to confess that we are ourself a bibliomaniac, and few possessions are more valued than an old manuscript, written on vellum some five hundred years ago, of which we cannot read one word.
I was a comparatively sane bibliomaniac, but to Allen the time came when he grudged every penny that he did not spend on rare books, and when he actually gave up his share of the water we used to take together, that his contribution to the rent might go for rare editions and bindings.
Some bibliomaniacs would sooner give away a book than suffer the anxiety of lending it.
He was also that rare type among bibliomaniacs, a scholar, actually reading some portion of the writings he accumulated.
Some sort of typo had apparently made his second novel quite the catch among bibliomaniacs, but Eddie doubted if King ever saw a commission on that sort of thing.
Dibdin has described his third sale, held in London during 1791, when the bibliomaniacs, it was said, used to cool themselves down with ice before they could face such excitement.
Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.