book-burner
Destroys written works
A book-burner is someone who burns books, typically to suppress ideas deemed dangerous, immoral, or heretical.
The term is almost always pejorative, evoking Nazi bonfires of 1933 and similar acts of ideological censorship.
It extends figuratively to anyone who would silence or destroy intellectual work: The school board members were called book-burners for removing novels from the library.
Overly zealous person
- zealotObsessive cause supporter
- bigotIntolerant, prejudiced person
- extremistOne holding fringe views
- dogmaticAsserting opinions as facts
authoritarian · totalitarian · fascist · Nazi · Inquisition · McCarthyism · ideologue · puritan
Funeral burning heap
- bonfireLarge outdoor fire
- flamesVisible burning combustion
- ashesBurned matter's residue
- incinerateBurn to nothing
conflagration · torch · immolation · kindling · fuel · smoke · embers · char
Forcible prevention or concealment
- banOfficial restriction on something
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- redactConceal text for secrecy
- bowdlerizeRemove objectionable content
expurgate · blacklist · forbidden · silencing · taboo · restriction · samizdat · contraband
Art-dismissing ignoramus
- obscurantismRestricting access to knowledge
- ignoranceAbsence of knowledge
- dystopiaImaginary terrible society
- propagandaBiased information for influence
fanatic
Overly zealous person
dogmatic · authoritarian · totalitarian · fascist · Nazi · Inquisition · McCarthyism · ideologue · puritan · fundamentalist
pyre
Funeral burning heap
incinerate · conflagration · torch · immolation · kindling · fuel · smoke · embers · char · obliterate
suppression
Forcible prevention or concealment
- banOfficial restriction on something
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- redactConceal text for secrecy
bowdlerize · expurgate · blacklist · forbidden · silencing · taboo · restriction · samizdat · contraband · underground
philistine
Art-dismissing ignoramus
- obscurantismRestricting access to knowledge
- ignoranceAbsence of knowledge
- dystopiaImaginary terrible society
book-burnerlibrarian
Collection manager at reading hall
archivist · bibliophile · book lover · book collector · preservationist
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