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  • The OED has tapinophoby: an 'obsolete nonce-word' used in Richard Graves' The Spiritual Quixote (1783): 'Such readers as are possessed with the modern tapino-phoby, or dread of every thing that is low..in writing.'

    September 28, 2008

  • JM really is concerned about spreading tapinophobia

    August 8, 2010