book-burning

See also: book burning

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Noun

book-burning (countable and uncountable, plural book-burnings)

  1. The practice of destroying books by fire because of moral, religious or political objections to the material they contain.
  2. An event where books are burned.
    • 1981 February 14, Joanne Brown, “Feminist Starts Uproar By Putting Up Sticker”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 3:
      […] only a month after 75 students there held a public bookburning of their student handbok for its gay content.

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