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xenophobias

xenophobias

English

Noun

xenophobias

  1. plural of xenophobia
    Ralph Barton Perry, Characteristically American (1949) p. 68.
    • Even our xenophobias, our isolationisms, and our Know-Nothingisms, have found support in the perversions and distortions of this creed.
    Damien Broderick, Reading by Starlight (1994) p. 114.
    • If this last, embracing the alien, seems an advance on previous xenophobias, it is largely illusory.
    Diana Abu-Jaber, Arabian Jazz (2003) p. 329.
    • There is nothing unique or magical about the Middle East; it shares xenophobias and violences with all the rest of the world!