banned book

collocation in English

meaningsofbanandbook

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ban
noun[C]
uk
/bæn/us
/bæn/
an official order that prevents something ...
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book
noun
uk
/bʊk/us
/bʊk/
a written text that can be published in printed or ...
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(Definition ofbanandbookfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The book has frequently appeared onbannedbooklists for offensive language, and violence.
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In voice-over narration, he describes his enjoyment of reading banned books, his despair of his small-town existence, and his dreams of leaving for college.
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These book bans compose a part of the history of censorship and a subset of the list of banned books.
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She made the difficult and risky trip many times, smuggling in banned books and taking out samizdat manuscripts.
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A 2007 era listing of banned books showed that none had been banned since 1998.
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The liberalisation of 1965 was condemned and an index of banned books and authors was re-established.
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It is one of the most prosecuted and banned books in history.
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Exhibitions have addressed such diverse themes as banned books, comic art, gender, and activism in the arts.
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The novel has been the subject of a great deal of controversy due to its subject matter, and appears regularly on lists of banned books.
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In 1948 a catalogue 522 pages long was printed, encompassing some 8,000 banned books and magazines, which were removed from public libraries and school textbooks.
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Zosimus is known for having compiled a list of banned books and written an epistle against heretics.
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People were easily and inconspicuously locked up for copying banned books.
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However, the most commonly cited explanation for this is that he was reading, or in possession of, banned books.
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He deviated from orthodoxy by believing, for instance, that heavenly bodies affected human behavior (denying free will), reading banned books, and criticizing the veneration of saints.
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