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‖ theophobia|θiːəʊˈfəʊbɪə|
[f. theo- + -phobia. Cf. F. théophobie (a 1784 in Littré Suppl.).]
Anxious fear of God; dread of divine anger; rarely, aversion to or hatred of God. So theophobist |-ˈɒfəbɪst|, one who is affected with theophobia.
1870O. W. Holmes Mechanism (1888) 105 Pascal, whose reverence amounted to *theophobia. 1885Swinburne Misc. (1886) 239 His..masterpiece of Cain,..might seem to a devout spirit to have been dictated by actual theophobia. 1899Expositor Oct. 317 Those men laboured under a terrible disease—it is called Theophobia.
1885Mrs. H. Ward tr. Amiel's Jrnl. II. 134 A *theophobist, whom faith in goodness rouses to a fury of contempt. |