Meaning of libraryful | Babel Free

Definitions

Enough to fill a library.

Examples

“The rude fact which editors forbear to mention⟳ (though they hint at it) is this: we have⟳ made libraryfuls of plans for destroying war before we know⟳ what war is.”

“All too easy, in these circumstances, for students to think⟳ that anthropology is nothing but a clutch of conjectures about the nature of humankind and a libraryful of books about the apparently strange customs of exotically different peoples.”

“Sex, the subject of librariesful of books, galleriesful of art and even, as we have⟳ seen, an occasional laboratoryful of science; the object of inquisitions and persecutions, of worship⟳ and reverence; the star of subliminal advertising, the glory of morning glory and the power of the sunflower, the Shaper of the lotus-yoni and mighty Priapus, the three-letter word that rhymes with hex—sex, created by evolution to speed⟳ up the dance⟳ (so say⟳ the Evolutionists), used by the Horned One to ensnare human souls (so say⟳ the Creationists).”

“Where other visitors exuded sentiment by the libraryful, Whymper remained cold, indifferent and judgemental.”

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