noun
- a person who worships or has excessive reverence for books
Usage: formal; rare
Examples
- The professor was such a bibliolater that he refused to use digital texts.
- As a bibliolater, she collected first editions with religious devotion.
- The library’s bibliolater spent hours caressing ancient manuscripts.
- Critics called him a bibliolater for valuing books over practical experience.
- The bibliolater’s home was filled with towering shelves of precious volumes.