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Anglophobia

noun
1.
Dislike (or fear) of Britain and British customs.





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"Anglophobia" Quotes from Famous Books



... became a tradition and a political and literary convention. But the emptiness of this normal national hatred of John Bull was shown in 1898, when, at the first distinct sign of friendliness on the part of the British government and people, the whole American anglophobia vanished, and the people of the continent realized that the time had come for a recognition of the essential and normal harmony of ...
— The Wars Between England and America • T. C. Smith
... on in life the Marquis de Mores became a fanatical Anglophobe, and he lost his life leading an army of irregular Arab cavalry against the British forces in the Sudan; murdered, if I remember rightly, by his own men. Most regretfully do I attribute Antoine de Mores' violent Anglophobia to the very rude things I and my brother were in the habit of saying to him when we quarrelled, which happened on an average about four times ...
— The Days Before Yesterday • Lord Frederick Hamilton


Words linked to "Anglophobia" :   dislike, Anglophilia, Anglophobic


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