"germ-fear" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1907, Indiana Academy of Science, Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science",
          "text": "It is thought that a wide understanding of facts regarding bodily resistance will tend to replace this unfortunate germ-fear by a rational faith in the body's marvelous powers.",
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          "ref": "1932, Postage and the Mailbag",
          "text": "I am rapidly getting to the point where I shall consider anti-constipation advertisers and germ-fear implanters more dangerous public enemies than Al Capone."
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          "ref": "1982, San Francisco Review of Books",
          "text": "Krich suffers from pessimism, reluctance, bellyaching germ-fear, and a nagging disorientation of being out of whack."
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          "ref": "1983, William Darrach Halsey, Collier's Encyclopedia: With Bibliography and Index",
          "text": "Microphobia and Mysophobia. These phobias of germ fear and dirt fear, respectively, are closely allied.",
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          "ref": "2002, Melvin A. Benarde, You've Been Had!",
          "text": "The obverse side of that germ-fear coin is the inculcation of fear of all microbes. The fact is, most microbes are not only harmless, they are beneficial, and we do not live in a sterile, germ-free world. We can't, and we shouldn't want to.",
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          "ref": "2004, Ramona Dearing, So Beautiful",
          "text": "They get a kiss in before two mothers, germ-fear making them look angry, swoop the kids awav. Babies are crying, sleeping, sucking, cowboy-riding on knees, sticking their hands into their dads' mouths.",
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        "The fear of germs and other pathogenic micro-organisms; germophobia."
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        {
          "word": "bacteriophobia"
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          "word": "mysophobia"
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        {
          "word": "bacillophobia"
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        {
          "word": "germ fear"
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          "ref": "1907, Indiana Academy of Science, Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science",
          "text": "It is thought that a wide understanding of facts regarding bodily resistance will tend to replace this unfortunate germ-fear by a rational faith in the body's marvelous powers.",
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          "ref": "1932, Postage and the Mailbag",
          "text": "I am rapidly getting to the point where I shall consider anti-constipation advertisers and germ-fear implanters more dangerous public enemies than Al Capone."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1982, San Francisco Review of Books",
          "text": "Krich suffers from pessimism, reluctance, bellyaching germ-fear, and a nagging disorientation of being out of whack."
        },
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          "text": "The obverse side of that germ-fear coin is the inculcation of fear of all microbes. The fact is, most microbes are not only harmless, they are beneficial, and we do not live in a sterile, germ-free world. We can't, and we shouldn't want to.",
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