nonce-wd. [f. as prec., after hydrophobia.] A morbid dread of ecclesiasticism.
1877. Daily News, 25 Oct., 5/7. That particular form of ecclesiophobia which consists in seeing the finger of Jesuitry everywhere.
1898. Rev. Sidney Holmes, in Lucifer, 1 Oct., 2/1. Two of the most common diseases of irreligious men are ecclesiophobia and bibliophobia.
