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Definition of Bookishness
1. Noun. Exaggerated studiousness.
Definition of Bookishness
1. Noun. The property of being bookish. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bookishness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bookishness
Literary usage of Bookishness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brief Literary Criticisms by Richard Holt Hutton (1906)
"bookishness AND LITERATURE SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, in his panegyric on the pleasures
of reading. to the ..."
2. Appreciations and Addresses by Archibald Philip Primrose Rosebery (1899)
"bookishness AND STATESMANSHIP IT is difficult for me to avoid a certain feeling
of sadness in standing here to-night, for it is twenty-seven years since I ..."
3. Father Payne by Arthur Christopher Benson (1916)
"LXI OF bookishness I WENT in to see Father Payne one morning about some work.
He was reading a book with knitted brows: he looked up, gave a nod, ..."
4. Southern Educational Review (1907)
"First, it is to create the reading habit, to foster bookishness. ... bookishness is
not a very pretty word, but it expresses what I mean better than any ..."
5. Library Journal by Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter, American Library Association, Library Association (1877)
"A little bookishness in a committee-man may be as dangerous as a sip from the
... It is only when bookishness becomes exclusiveness and prevents sympathy, ..."
6. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1921)
"A like complaint has been lodged against the bookishness of our education by ...
Stevenson asserted that the bookishness of the schools produced "a sort of ..."
7. Essays and Addresses: Religious, Literary and Social by Phillips Brooks (1894)
"Goethe," says Frederick Maurice, "was entirely a pro- testant against the
bookishness of Germany in behalf of life." The whole pressure of literature, ..."
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