hierophobia

English

Etymology

From hiero- +‎ -phobia.

Noun

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.