bookishness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

BOOK'ISHNESS, noun Addictedness to books; fondness for study. BOOK'-KEEPER,noun [book and keep.] One who keeps accounts, or the accounts of another; the officer who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in a public office.
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