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phobian en · NOUN

Etymology

From phobia + -n.

Meanings

1. One who is phobic or antagonistic towards something.
   • Some years ago when I concocted the word futurism (it was a Spring night in Paris), I should have balanced it with pasteurism, which process I now suggest as a sociological relief from mountebanks, utilitarians, egotistical snobs of progress, press phobians, news delirians and loquacious neurasthenics suffering from various forms of auto suggestion. 1913, Metropolitan - Volume 38, page 34:
   • The time has now come to sever this connection between Western mediaeval phobians and Islam completely. 1997, The Concept - Volume 17, page 45:
   • The cynics and phobians are “a diverse collection of anti-federalist politicians and observers who believe that the 'Europe' project cannot help but be an anti-national, anti-democratic, conspiracy-without-a-centre of bureaucratic social democrats, whose goal, perhaps unwitting, is to turn Europe into a superstate controlled by a technocratic managerial elite." 2008, Hans-Georg Ehrhart, Sabine Jaberg, Bernhard Rinke, Die Europäische Union im 21. Jahrhundert, →ISBN:
   • I am anguished to see the author, a votary of Hindutva restraining himself, advising Hindutva phobians to shed off their protest. 2001, BJP Today - Volume 10, page 32:

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