romanophobe
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who fears, hates, or is prejudiced against Rome or the Romans (especially Ancient Rome or the Roman Empire, or sometimes the Roman Catholic Church and Pope in Rome).
noun
One who fears, hates, or is prejudiced against Roma.
noun
One who fears, hates, or is prejudiced against Romanians.
Example Sentences
- "A Greek, and writing in Greek, he seems to take Rome and its history as one of the facts of life. You cannot think of him as either a Romanophobe or a Romanophile."
- "These were the statues which the Romanophobe Metrodorus from Skepsis claimed were the real reason behind the Roman conquest of the city (cf. Pliny, N.H. XXXIV,34)."
- "Any alleviation of the harshest measures toward the Catholics always aroused strong protests from the Romanophobes."
- "[...] betrays the Roman point of view, which its author (J.) has assumed. On the other hand, Berendts had already discussed some very Romanophobe passages in the Slavic version of Josephus, that could not have appeared in the edition of its author which was dedicated to Titus."
- "That no other nation could equal Rome's influence and affluence is the direct result of her constitutional superiority. ... The disgruntled disloyal Romanophobe Roman Tacitus who scowls 'Cor- ruptissima republica plurimae leges' or [...]"
- "George Borrow (1803-1881) has stood as the acknowledged source of inspiration for countless Romanophiles (as well as Romanophobes) ever since his literary heyday in the 19th century; in fact Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald saw himself as quite "unfashionable" (1944:x) because he was one of the few who didn't make his "first acquaintance with [Gypsies] in the pages of George Borrow"."