English

Noun

hierophobia ‎(uncountable)

1. Fear of what is religious or sacred.
   • 1850, Robert Southey, ‎John Wood Warter, Common-place Book: Analytical readings (page 103)

     Irreligion and hierophobia of the Republicans.

   • 1860, Dublin University Magazine

     Unhappily for Owen, he had conceived a kind of hierophobia in childhood which never left him. He saw in religion only a contrivance for making men cowards towards God and slaves to each other.