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Fromlibrary +‎-ful.

Noun

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libraryful (plurallibraryfulsorlibrariesful)

  1. Enough to fill alibrary.
    • 1926, Charles Henshaw Ward,Thobbing: a seat at the circus of the intellect, page307:
      The rude fact which editors forbear to mention (though they hint at it) is this: we have madelibraryfuls of plans for destroying war before we know what war is.
    • 1999, David Pocock,Understanding Social Anthropology, page vii:
      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 alibraryful of books about the apparently strange customs of exotically different peoples.
    • 2004, Don Strachan,King of Diamonds, page179:
      Sex, the subject oflibrariesful 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).
    • 2011, Fergus Fleming,Killing Dragons: The Conquest Of The Alps:
      Where other visitors exuded sentiment by thelibraryful, Whymper remained cold, indifferent and judgemental.
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