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book-burning

n. The practice of destroying books by fire because of moral, religious or political objections to the material they contain.

Usage examples of "book-burning".

Then the Vatican caught wind of it and went on a book-burning campaign.

Virga expected the man to say more, but he seemed preoccupied with the book-burning miles away.

Only a few months after Hitler came to power, the Nazis organised a mass book-burning in German cities - not only communist literature, but works by writers such as Einstein, Thomas Mann and H.