Meanings
- not comparablerareNot bibliophilic.
[...] TT seems unbibliophilic, if not downright unchristian, to [...]
1932, Norman L. Dodge, The Month at Goodspeed's2 more examples
[...] those pencilled M notes of exclamation or " obstinate questionings " — never fated to be answered, it would seem ; those vacuous remarks, spoiling the fair margins of a book like a dead fly, shut up between their imprisoning walls untimely, or a dried leaf placed there by the deliberate villainy of some unbibliophilic reader.
1925, Edwin Beresford Chancellor, Literary diversionsThe degrading and repulsive part, the unbibliophilic acts in the British Museum and other libraries, are not part of the assessment of the importance of An Enquiry.
1981, Antiquarian Book Monthly Review
Origin
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unbibliophilic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbibliophilic
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