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Anglophobia

Anglophobia \An`glo*pho"bi*a\, n. [Anglo- + Gr. ? fear.] Intense dread of, or aversion to, England or the English. -- An"glo*phobe, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Anglophobia

1793, from Anglo- + -phobia. Related: Anglophobe; Anglophobic.

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anglophobia

n. (alternative case form of Anglophobia English)

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Anglophobia

Anti-English sentiment or Anglophobia (from Latin Anglus "English" and Greek φόβος, phobos, "fear") means opposition to, dislike of, fear of, or hatred towards England or the English people. The term is sometimes used more loosely for general anti-British sentiment. Its opposite is Anglophilia.

Usage examples of "anglophobia".

Presently, Rosetti overcame his Anglophobia sufficiently to permit him to ask Clayton to show him how to make a bow and arrows.

As for the Anglophobia, the Englishman who thinks the less of him for that must have very poor and unhappy brains.

Congress was the strong undercurrent of Anglophobia that had run through the American psyche since the Revolution and which would not entirely disappear until the United States entered World War I on the side of Britain.