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Meaning of episcopophobia | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

Fear or hatred of bishops.

uncountable

Examples

“Hall and "Smectymnuus," and Hall and Milton, were writing against each other in the year of the most ferocious episcopophobia which the Church has ever or anywhere experienced; a few months after the issue of Milton's pamphlet, Bishop Hall and his fellow-prelates were hurried by order of the savage Nonconformist Parliament to the Tower.”

CEFR level

C2
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