Obs. nonce-wd. [f. Gr. ταπεινός low, base + -phoby: see -PHOBIA.] (See quot.)
1772. R. Graves, Spir. Quixote, I. vi. (1783), I. 18. Such readers as are possessed with the modern tapino-phoby, or dread of every thing that is low … in writing.
