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Hellenophobia en · NOUN

Etymology

From Helleno- + -phobia.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Discrimination against Greeks.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

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Relateds

Hellenophobic