book burning

See also: book-burning

English

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book burning (countable and uncountable, plural book burnings)

  1. (literally) A mass burning of books, intended as a form of political and/or religious censorship.
  2. (by extension, idiomatic) Any mass destruction, removal, or recalling of books, motion pictures, broadcasts, or electronic works as a form of censorship, especially motivated by religious or political objections to the material.
    • 1987, “Exhuming McCarthy”, in Document (R.E.M. No. 5), performed by R.E.M.:
      Exhuming McCarthy (meet me at the book burning, meet me at the book burning)

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