Meanings
- uncountableFear or hatred of bishops.
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Hall and "Smectymnuus," and Hall and Milton, were writing against each other in the year of the most ferocious episcopophobia which the Church has ever or anywhere experienced; a few months after the issue of Milton's pamphlet, Bishop Hall and his fellow-prelates were hurried by order of the savage Nonconformist Parliament to the Tower.
1890, The Newbery House Magazine, page 132
Origin
- Latinepiscopus“bishop”
- Englishepiscopophobia
From Latin episcopus (“bishop”), Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “bishop”) + -phobia.
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