bibliolater

American  

[bib-lee-ahl-uh-ter] / ˌbɪb liˈɑl ə tər /

noun

plural

bibliolaters

1. Disparaging. a person who believes that the Bible is inerrant or who follows the letter of the Bible to an unusual extent.

2. a person who is particularly fond of books: a bibliophile.

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Other Word Forms

• bibliolatry noun

Example Sentences

What a club is to an idle man of fashion,—what a sewing-society is to a scandal-loving woman,—what a billiard-room is to a man about town,—what the Athenæum is to the sober and steadfast bibliolater,—that is the Insurance Office to the retired merchant, bald and spectacled, who wanders like a ghost among the scenes of his former activity.

From Project Gutenberg

It appears to me that if there is anybody more objectionable than the orthodox Bibliolater it is the heterodox Philistine, who can discover in a literature which, in some respects, has no superior, nothing but a subject for scoffing and an occasion for the display of his conceited ignorance of the debt he owes to former generations.

From Project Gutenberg

A thorough-going Bibliolater will have to impeach me as a sinner on this count.

From Project Gutenberg

He looked longingly at my well-printed copy of Byron; but what impressed him most was my little collection of law books, especially Folkard's fat "Law of Libel," which he regarded with the awe and veneration of a bibliolater, suddenly confronting a gigantic mystery of erudition.

From Project Gutenberg

I suppose, my bibliolater, you have not yet finished your Hebrew or Samaritan translation of coquette.

From Project Gutenberg