germanophobia

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of Germanophobia.

   Perhaps the chink in Kroenig's argument is his search for germanophobia.

   2014, Mark Connelly, We Can Take It!, page 286

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   We sincerely regret that the statesmen in Britain and France are suffering from virulent germanophobia.

   1922, The Literary Digest - Volume 72, page 21

   I don't know how I managed to square this most wonderful of institutions with my deep-seated germanophobia.

   2005, Marilyn Ziebarth, Brian Horrigan, Christmas in Minnesota, page 112

alternative germanophobia

1. uncountableThe hatred or fear of Germany, its people and culture.

   In the mid-1860s, Russia also experienced an outbreak of Germanophobia.

   2017, Juliet Johnson, Marietta Stepaniants, Benjamin Forest, Religion and Identity in Modern Russia

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   If we deal with state Germanophobia, the first observation concerns the uniqueness of war in the sense that it means that the government became overtly rather than covertly xenophobic in order to create a level of support on the home front necessary for victory on the battlefield, especially before conscription was introduced at the beginning of 1916. In Britain during the First World War, the government established various agencies for the propagation of Germanophobia.

   1996, Panikos Panayi, Germans in Britain Since 1500, page 115

   "Van," as he was known to friend and foe alike, has been accused of Germanophobia, criticized for being indifferent to events outside of his Eurocentric perspective, and castigated for possessing an inflexible mind.

   1997, Michael Lawrence Roi, Alternative to Appeasement, page 1

2. uncountableThe hatred or fear of the presence of the German language and its native speakers.

   Synonyms: Teutonophobia, Teutophobia