libricide

English

Noun

libricide (countable and uncountable, plural libricides)

1. (rare) The destruction of books.

Synonyms

• biblioclasm

References

• Bosmajian, H. (2006). Burning Books. London: McFarland.
• Knuth, R. (2003). Libricide. Westport, CT: Praeger.
• Knuth, R. (2006). Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction. Westpot, CT: Praeger.
• The Oxford English dictionary [electronic resource]. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.