hierophobia
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Etymology edit
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hierophobia (uncountable)
- 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.