biblioklept
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of biblioklept
1880–85; biblio- + Greek kléptēs thief; kleptomania
Example Sentences
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The Book-Ghoul is he who combines the larceny of the biblioklept with the abominable wickedness of breaking up and mutilating the volumes from which he steals.
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This sentence has naturally caused us to reflect on the ethical character of the biblioklept.
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But the extreme is found in covetousness, and the covetous man who is in the extreme state of book-loving, is the biblioklept, or book-stealer.
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This fragment of the lost Aristotelian treatise "Concerning Books," shows what a difficulty the Stagirite had in determining the precise nature of the moral offence of the biblioklept.
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But the biblioklept treasures and adorns the books he has acquired; and when he dies, or goes to prison, the State receives the benefit at his sale.
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