book burning
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Meaning
book burning (countable and uncountable, plural book burnings)
The 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.
The practice of destroying books by fire because of moral, religious or political objections to the material they contain.
An event where books are burned
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After the book burning of 212 BC, the Han dynasty (202 BC–220 AD) produced works of mathematics which presumably expanded on works that are now lost.
A wide range of laws were invoked in the process of the suppression, from general treason to charges of book burning or demolishing houses, a process complicated by the relatively narrow definition of treason at the time.
In a 1956 radio interview, citation Bradbury stated that he wrote Fahrenheit 451 because of his concerns at the time (during the McCarthy era ) about the threat of book burning in the United States.
In the poem “I Would Have Listened to Rush,” the speaker will not be deterred by shipwreck, wild animals, book-burning, starvation, exile, amputation, or animal entrails.
Jones briefly encounters him at a book burning rally in Berlin.
Nazi book burning main A Nazi-sponsored book burning meant to negate the value of Germany's literary history (10 May 1933, Berlin).