zenophobia

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zenophobia

  1. Misspelling of xenophobia.
    • 1946, Percy Ellwood Corbett, Britain: Partner for Peace, page 14:
      [] will have to survive a heavy and sustained barrage of Anglophobia and zenophobia.
    • 1956, Satellite Science Fiction, volume 1, page 111:
      It was unfortunate that the "normal precautions" did not allow for Tony Auerbach's publicity campaign, which had now reached new heights of interplanetary zenophobia.
    • 1974, Benjamin M. Weissman, Herbert Hoover and Famine Relief to Soviet Russia, 1921-1923, page 185:
      This total transformation in the official image of the ARA cannot be attributed to Stalin's notorious zenophobia; the attacks continued unabated after his death.
    • 1988, Ronald Knowles, The Birthday Party and the Caretaker, page 45:
      The whole design of The Caretaker is patterned by repetition of a large number of motifs including such matters as Davies's zenophobia, the bucket, friendship, naming, the Buddha, sleeping arrangements []