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staurophobia

staurophobia noun: the fear of crosses.

Noun

staurophobia (uncountable)

  1. The fear of crosses.
    • The worst instance of staurophobia that I have heard of for some time occurred recently in one of our country settlements, in which most of the people are from the northern parts of the Emerald Isle. It appears that in one of the service-books—the Bible, I think—of the church of the settlement...1888, William Garden Cowie, Our Last Year in New Zealand, London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., I, Paternoster Square, page 198

Origin of staurophobia

From stauro- + -phobia.

Questions about staurophobia

What does staurophobia mean?
Staurophobia means the fear of crosses.
What part of speech is staurophobia?
Staurophobia is a noun.

Words near staurophobia in the dictionary

  1. stauromedusans
  2. stauropegia
  3. stauropegial
  4. stauropegic
  5. stauropegion
  6. staurophobia
  7. stauropolyp
  8. stauropolyps
  9. stauroscope
  10. stauroscopes
  11. stauroscopic

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