Index Librorum Prohibitorum
Americannoun
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Indices Librorum Prohibitorum
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of Index Librorum Prohibitorum
< New Latin: index of prohibited books
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Authoress Undset's latest novel stands a very slim chance of being put on the Pope's Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
From Time Magazine Archive
Freedom of thought was vigorously attacked; and the Index Librorum Prohibitorum was decreed.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
This, anyhow, cannot refer to the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, but only to the Index Expurgatorius, which was at no time an officiai publication.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Walter W. Greg
If they desire an Anglo-Saxon Index Librorum Prohibitorum, let them equitably and consistently apply their principles of inquisitorial scrutiny to every branch of human culture.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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