hellenophobia

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noun

Discrimination against Greeks.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

hellenophobia1

nounhellenophobia (uncountable)
  1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of Hellenophobia.

Hellenophobia2

nounHellenophobia (uncountable)

alternative hellenophobia

  1. uncountableDiscrimination against Greeks.

    Their inveterate Hellenophobia was the only relic of the past that survived this great cultural revolution; and it now found for itself a new expression in Christian terms.

    1961, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, A Study of History, volume 12, page 441
    2 more examples

    Since in Asia Minor, as well as at Constantinople, Turkophilism carries with it as corollaries Hellenophobia and Armenophobia, I will leave you to imagine in what paradoxes the souls of victors become entangled […]

    1920, Georges Bourdon, Hellas and Unredeemed Hellenism: The Policy of Victory in the East and Its Results

    Believers in a traditional Hellenophobia-Turkophobia would have stared at the sight of the Mytilene Greeks spreading farewell meals for their departing neighbours, and later accompanying them to the quay, where Christians and Mohammedans, who for a lifetime had been plowing adjacently and even sharing occasional backgammon games at village cafes, embraced and parted with tears.

    2006, Bruce Clark, Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions that Forged Modern Greece and Turkey

Origin

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