episcopophobia

English

Etymology

From Latin episcopus (“bishop”), Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “bishop”) +‎ -phobia.

Noun

episcopophobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear or hatred of bishops.
    • 1890, The Newbery House Magazine‎[1], page 132:
      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.
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