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hierophobia

hierophobia noun: fear of what is religious or sacred.

Noun

hierophobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear 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
    • 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

hierophobia meaning in Tamil

hierophobia in Tamil

துறவியர் வெருளி

Origin of hierophobia

From hiero- + -phobia.

Questions about hierophobia

What does hierophobia mean?
Hierophobia means fear of what is religious or sacred.
What is hierophobia in Tamil?
Hierophobia in Tamil is துறவியர் வெருளி. See Hierophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hierophobia?
Hierophobia is a noun.

Words near hierophobia in the dictionary

  1. hierophantes
  2. hierophantic
  3. hierophantically
  4. hierophants
  5. hierophany
  6. hierophobia
  7. hierophobic
  8. hieroscopy
  9. Hierosolyma
  10. Hierosolymitan
  11. Hierosolymite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hierophobia (page history and authors); hierophobia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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