hierophobia

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noun

Fear of what is religious or sacred.

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Meanings

nounhierophobia (uncountable)
  1. uncountableFear of what is religious or sacred.

    Irreligion and hierophobia of the Republicans.

    1850, Robert Southey, John Wood Warter, Common-place Book: Analytical readings, page 103
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    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.

    1860, Dublin University Magazine

Origin

From hiero- + -phobia.

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