unbibliophilic
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + bibliophilic.
Adjective
[edit]unbibliophilic (not comparable)
- (rare) Not bibliophilic.
- 1925, Edwin Beresford Chancellor, Literary diversions:
- [...] those pencilled M notes of exclamation or " obstinate questionings " — never fated to be answered, it would seem ; those vacuous remarks, spoiling the fair margins of a book like a dead fly, shut up between their imprisoning walls untimely, or a dried leaf placed there by the deliberate villainy of some unbibliophilic reader.
- 1932, Norman L. Dodge, The Month at Goodspeed's:
- [...] TT seems unbibliophilic, if not downright unchristian, to [...]
- 1981, Antiquarian Book Monthly Review:
- The degrading and repulsive part, the unbibliophilic acts in the British Museum and other libraries, are not part of the assessment of the importance of An Enquiry.