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Bookishness

noun
1.
Exaggerated studiousness.






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"Bookishness" Quotes from Famous Books



... migrating every three years. His function was to direct the affairs of the 'Book Room,' the publishing department of the Connexion. He lived in London, and shot out into the provinces at week-ends, preaching on Sundays and giving a lecture, tinctured with bookishness, 'in the chapel' on Monday evenings. In every town he visited there was competition for the privilege of entertaining him. He had zeal, indefatigable energy, and a breezy wit. He was a widower of fifty, and his wife had been dead ...
— The Old Wives' Tale • Arnold Bennett



Words linked to "Bookishness" :   studiousness, bookish



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