Saturday, September 27, 2014

Word of the Day

bibliophobe
 \ BIB-lee-uh-fohb \, noun;  
1.a person who hates, fears, or distrusts books.

Quotes:
"But they are slow to make. The printing press can produce many copies of the same book, you see. With this, anyone who wanted a book could simply go in a shop and buy it as other things are bought." I frowned, not convinced at all that this was a good thing. The king laughed. "So Kate, my bibliophobe , what would you rather be doing than reading?"
-- Susan Higginbotham, The Stolen Crown , 2010

The violations here are legion, starting with the fact that Stutzman, an apparent bibliophobe , was tricked into eagerly reading an entire book…
-- "Satisfaction Not Guaranteed: Reading Lance Armstrong," The New Yorker , Feb 1, 2013

Origin:
Bibliophobe  comes from the Greek biblion  meaning "book" and phóbos  "fear."

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