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Armenophobic

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Etymology

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From Armeno- +‎ -phobic.

Adjective

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Armenophobic (comparative more Armenophobic, superlative most Armenophobic)

  1. Showing Armenophobia.
    • 1905, “Letter from Constantinople”, in The New Armenia, volume 2, page 35:
      Out of this incident comes a stirring confusion, and some Armenophobic correspondents of European papers, in a spirit of unqualified cowardice, telegraph to their papers that the Armenians have blown up the Moslem mosques.
    • 1999, Shahen Mkrtchian, Sh. B. Davtʻyan, Shushi: the city of tragic fate, Amaras, page 27:
      And these Armenophobic "pillars of the Red Revolution in the East" on July 5, 1921, were given the Armenian region of Artsakh-Karabagh as a gift.
    • 2003, Andreas Kappeler, “The Russian Empire and Its Nationalities in Post-Soviet Historiographies”, in Hayashi Tadayuki, editor, The Construction and Deconstruction of National Histories in Slavic Eurasia, Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, →ISBN, page 38:
      In the first years of independence this nationalist ideology was sometimes applied in a dogmatic manner similar to that of the former axioms. An ethnocentric, partially xenophobic (russophobic, armenophobic, azerophobic, etc.) nationalism seemed to replace the Soviet dogma of the friendship of the peoples.
    • 2010, Grigoris Balakian, Peter Balakian, Aris Sevag, transl., Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918, Vintage, →ISBN, page 279:
      Sadly, all the German officers whom we met during these bloody years of world war, with rare exceptions, were as Armenophobic as the Turks, some expressing themselves indiscreetly, others being more diplomatic.

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