Meaning of typomania | Babel Free

Definitions

1. enthusiasm for typography
   uncountable
2. obsession with being published or writing for publication
   uncountable

Examples

“One of the most virulent cases of typomania was that of the man who, some ten years ago, inveigled his fiancee to go to Washington to be married in the Bureau of Printing and Engraving because he considered it the most appropriate setting […]”

“When typomania strikes, sooner or later the victim is seized with an irresistible urge⟳ to print⟳ a display of the types he holds — perhaps on a single sheet, perhaps in a series of typecards.”

“We have⟳ all smiled over the account of how Dr. Holland, on seeing his first printed poem in the Youth's Companion, "walked on air;" and all those who have⟳ ever been afflicted with even the mildest form⟳ of that disease which Dr. Holland has characterized as "typomania," have⟳ slyly hugged their mental selves on remembering how similar their own⟳ experiences have⟳ been.”

“At the same time a wandering minstrel named W. Dawson found enough encouragement among the starchy old Revolutionary heroes to enable him to publish⟳ a "Political and Literary Miscellany" which he called the Intelligencer. It was on the Western Statesman of Lawrenceburg under Gregg that Augustus Jocelyn, Judge⟳ David Laird, Thomas Dowling and C. F. Clarkson caught the typomania and carried the dangerous infection to as many Indiana towns.”

“But all this is of no avail: my typomania is boundless! I have⟳ started on my way and I must proceed forward⟳, willy-nilly. The second part of my Collection must be published, even if I have⟳ to go to Kamchatka!”

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