hydrophobias

English

Noun

hydrophobias

  1. plural of hydrophobia
    • 1875, William Henry Holcombe, Our Children in Heaven, page 286:
      The Christian philosophy ... cnanot understand ... and how there are cancers and plagues and hydrophobias of the soul, the secret causes of those horrible diseases in the body.
    • 1910, Armand Marie, Pellagra, page 242:
      Certain of these “hydrophobias” are marked by a fear of flowing surfaces because of photophobia.
    • 1998, Reese Palley, Unlikely Passages, page 39:
      We are anesthetized against most terrors of land. ... HydroPhobias begin on land long before casting off. But once at sea, fear quickly is lost.
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