hierophobia

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

hiero- +‎ -phobia

Noun[edit]

hierophobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear of what is religious or sacred.
    • 1850, Robert Southey, John Wood Warter, Common-place Book: Analytical readings, page 103:
      Irreligion and hierophobia of the Republicans.
    • 1860, Dublin University Magazine:
      Unhappily for Owen, he had conceived a kind of hierophobia in childhood which never left him. He saw in religion only a contrivance for making men cowards towards God and slaves to each other.
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