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English
Etymology
From German + -o- + -phobe.
Noun
Germanophobe (plural Germanophobes)
- Someone who dislikes or fears Germany.
1931, Wilhelm Mattenklodt, Fugitive in the jungle, page 288:Thereupon the Germanophobe interrupted me with wrathful remonstrances about our lies and denials
1997, Michael Lawrence Roi, Alternative to Appeasement, page 9:Vansittart has long been portrayed as a vehement, if not violent, Germanophobe, the leading member of a like-minded circle of Foreign Office advisers.
2008, Thomas Weber, Our Friend "the Enemy":, page 93:What we have seen is that a simple binary system of Anglophobe versus Anglophile and Germanophobe versus Germanophile grossly misrepresents the character of Anglo-German relations and antagonism in the pre-1914 era.
Adjective
Germanophobe (not comparable)
- Anti-German; Germanophobic.
1938, George Peabody Gooch, Harold William Vazeille Temperley, British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914:I interrupted the Baron in order to observe that my personal feelings could not be of any consequence but as a matter of fact I was not Germanophobe, I was Anglomane, it was natural that you should wish to know from your observer on the spot what was the feeling in France in regard to the critical state in which the negotiations between the French and German Governments then were.
1952, Americanism Betrayed: Fact Vs. Fiction, page 13:Naturally, the always Germanophobe “Times", Germanophobe by its own open admission, would not want justice done but injustice perpetuated so long as it serves the policies of No. 10 Downing Street and the Sanhedrin.
2002, C. J. Lowe, F. Marzari, Italian Foreign Policy, 1870-1940, page 363:Certainly, Ciano, growing more Germanophobe by the day, had entertained the thought.