Meaning of Germanophobia | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The hatred or fear of Germany, its people and culture.
   uncountable
2. The hatred or fear of the presence of the German language and its native speakers.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“If we deal with state Germanophobia, the first observation concerns the uniqueness of war in the sense that it means that the government became overtly rather than covertly xenophobic in order to create a level of support on the home front necessary for victory on the battlefield, especially before conscription was introduced at the beginning of 1916. In Britain during the First World War, the government established various agencies for the propagation of Germanophobia.”

“"Van," as he was known to friend and foe alike, has been accused of Germanophobia, criticized for being indifferent to events outside of his Eurocentric perspective, and castigated for possessing an inflexible mind.”

“In the mid-1860s, Russia also experienced an outbreak of Germanophobia.”

“We sincerely regret that the statesmen in Britain and France are suffering from virulent germanophobia.”

“I don't know how I managed to square this most wonderful of institutions with my deep-seated germanophobia.”

“Perhaps the chink in Kroenig's argument is his search for germanophobia.”

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