Definition of "book-burning" [book-burning]

• The practice of destroying books by fire because of moral, religious or political objections to the material they contain. (noun)

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• "Ms. Hughes is also too uncritical of her sources: She offers late Roman accounts of the Athenian persecution of intellectuals, long ago rejected as tendentious fictions by serious scholars, as fact and even inflates them into a systematic regime of censorship, book-burning and execution."
• "When Comstock put a book-burning reformer and a prison guard on the seal of his vice society, he meant the figures to be taken quite literally."
• "Terry Jones called off book-burning after alleged deal to move New York Islamic centre further away from Ground Zero, which Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf denies"