Noun

(en noun)

Strong aversion; intense dislike; hateful regard; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as unpleasant, harmful or evil.

* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.

the very circumstance which renders it so innocent is what chiefly exposes it to the public hatred

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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* (David Crystal)

Fears and hatreds pay no attention to facts.

Noun

(-)

(rare) Dislike or hatred of the Catalan people, culture or language.

* 1979 , European studies review , vol. 9, Macmillan, pg. 15:

Villaverde's refusal to concede a concierto económico to the region, backed by a general diatribe of catalanophobia in the Madrid press, brought on a taxpayers' strike in Barcelona and throughout Catalonia, coupled with the closure of shops.

* 1990 , Élites and Power in Twentieth-Century Spain: Essays in Honor of Sir Raymond Carr , Eds. Frances Lannon and Paul Preston, Clarendon Press, ISBN 9780198228806, pg. 52:

Against a general diatribe of catalanophobia in the Madrid press, the middle classes of the Principality, represented in their guilds (gremios''), retaliated by declaring a taxpayers' strike and the closure of all shops, a movement which became known as the ''tancament de caixes .

* 2000 , Joseph Harrison, "Tackling national decadence: economic regeneration in Spain after the colonial débâcle," Spain's 1898 Crisis: Regenerationism, Modernism, Post-Colonialism , Eds. Joseph Harrison and Alan Hoyle, Manchester University Press, ISBN 9780719058622, pg. 61:

Yet in a mood of catalanophobia , stirred up by sections of the Madrid press against separatist tendencies in the Principality, Catalan proposals for the economic regeneration of Spain were rejected as special pleading.