gamophobia
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]gamophobia (uncountable)
- The fear of marriage.
- 1808, Edward Dubois, Fashionable Biography; or, Specimens of Public Characters by a Connoisseur, W. Lewis (1808), page xlv:
- He has on him a perpetual gamophobia, and an instinctive antipathy to births and marriages, which makes him carefully avoid that part of the newspapers in which they so constantly appear.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gamophobia.
- 1808, Edward Dubois, Fashionable Biography; or, Specimens of Public Characters by a Connoisseur, W. Lewis (1808), page xlv: