staurophobia

English

Etymology

From stauro- +‎ -phobia.

Noun

staurophobia (uncountable)

  1. The fear of crosses. [19th c.]
    • 1888, William Garden Cowie, Our Last Year in New Zealand‎[1], London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., I, Paternoster Square, page 198:
      The worst instance of staurophobia that I have heard of for some time occurred recently in one of our country settlements, in which most of the people are from the northern parts of the Emerald Isle. It appears that in one of the service-books—the Bible, I think—of the church of the settlement there was a silk-ribbon marker, ornamented at each end with a small embossed cross.
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