Citations:rhabdophobia

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English citations of rhabdophobia

  • 1987, “Cobb v. State”, in District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District[1]:
    Although it is arguable that flight from an approaching police officer indicates mens rea, it is also arguable that flight is a manifestation of a person's autophilia, xenophobia, pantophobia, cleithrophobia, aichmophobia or even rhabdophobia.
  • 1998, uk.org.mensa[2] (Usenet):
    you and your acolyte cronies need to posture to make up for your penis envy/lack of power and rhabdophobia
  • 2006, James Donal Faulkner, A Piper in Brazil, →ISBN, page 88:
    Not unlike many CB graduates he was stricken with rhabdophobia - fear of being severely punished with a rod - and so, at the age of 15, he joined runaway slaves in Palmares.