What does book-burning mean?
Definitions for book-burning
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book-burningnoun
The practice of destroying books by fire because of moral, religious or political objections to the material they contain.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of book-burning in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of book-burning in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of book-burning in a Sentence
Canceling and silencing people is the latest book burning. That’s what they’re doing. They’re canceling and silencing people on the internet, and it’s book burning.
It is deeply disturbing to see a group of students engaged in this kind of conduct, this symbolic gesture aimed not just to reject or refute ideas but to obliterate the very paper on which they were written... It behooves the university to educate its students about why book burning is so inimical to open discourse and free expression.
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