"libraryful" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: libraryfuls [plural], librariesful [plural]
Etymology: From library + -ful. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|library|ful|pos=noun}} library + -ful Head templates: {{en-noun|s|librariesful}} libraryful (plural libraryfuls or librariesful)
  1. Enough to fill a library.

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1926, Charles Henshaw Ward, Thobbing: a seat at the circus of the intellect, page 307:",
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          "ref": "2004, Don Strachan, King of Diamonds, page 179:",
          "text": "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).",
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