Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An intense hatred or fear of England, or of whatever is English.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Intense dread of, or aversion to, England or the English.

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  • noun The hatred or fear of England and anything English (or British).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun dislike (or fear) of Britain and British customs

Etymologies

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From Anglo- + -phobia.

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Examples

  • Anglophobia is always liable to reversal, hence that fairly common spectacle, the pacifist of one war who is a bellicist in the next.

    Notes on Nationalism 1945

  • The bad-tempered Cooper, says Mr. Richardson, had "paranoia: paranoia made for Anglophobia, the only form of patriotism that he permitted himself."

    A Shortsighted View of Picasso Paul Levy 2012

  • One son threatens to beat his ass with his head and one daughter is given to candid Anglophobia.

    An Englishman in Dixie Tripp 2009

  • The diversionary tactic of arguing that anyone arguing the anti-Islamist case is tarring 'All 1.5 Billion Muslims with The Same Brush!!' must now be sent to the rhetorical dustbin, along with the 'We Didn't Call IRA Terrorists' Catholic 'Terrorists!!' and the 'Muslims are the New Jews!!' devices, beloved of the Guardian crowd in their Anglophobia and naivity.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • The Thatcher years also fed an ancient undercurrent of Anglophobia.

    Blue, White, Red 2008

  • Thoreau in the context of early national Anglophobia in

    Introduction: A History of Transatlantic Romanticism 2006

  • This legacy alone is enough to inspire virulent Anglophobia in any democracy-loving American.

    Archive 2006-11-01 2006

  • This legacy alone is enough to inspire virulent Anglophobia in any democracy-loving American.

    First past the bloody post 2006

  • This legacy alone is enough to inspire virulent Anglophobia in any democracy-loving American.

    First past the bloody post 2006

  • England; for rabid, I see you are; I read Anglophobia in your looks, and hear it in your words.

    The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

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