Citations:gamophobia

Noun: "the fear of marriage"

 * 1808, Edward Dubois, Fashionable Biography; or, Specimens of Public Characters by a Connoisseur, W. Lewis (1808), page xlv:
 * He has on him a perpetual gamophobia, and an instinctive antipathy to births and marriages, which makes him carefully avoid that part of the newspapers in which they so constantly appear.


 * 1978, Mario Pei, Weasel Words: The Art of Saying What You Don't Mean, Harper & Row (1978), ISBN 9780060133429, page 167:
 * Both sexes may suffer in common from "gamophobia" (gamos, "wedding"), fear of marriage.
 * 1980, Encounter, Volume 54, page 72:
 * This unhappy event is often due to gamophobia ("fear of marriage") or to agenocratia ("opposition to birth control").
 * 1993, Mel Gussow, "Theater in Review", The New York Times, 10 March 1993:
 * A woman apparently suffering from gamophobia (fear of marriage) has abandoned her husband, taking all of their furniture but leaving their baby behind.
 * 1994, Leanne Banks, Playing with Dynamite, Loveswept (1994), ISBN 9780553443844, page 176:
 * Here he was ready to try to get past this gamophobia. He'd already made a good strong start, and Lisa not only didn't believe him, she planned to ignore him.
 * 1997, Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, Random House (1997), ISBN 0553575953, page 243:
 * "I've got gamophobia," Anne said. "That's fear of marriage. I should've gotten it a lot sooner. My marriages had the shelf life of buttermilk."
 * 2005, K. Balachandran, Critical Essays on American Literature: A Festschrift to Dr. L. Jeganatha Raja, Sarup & Sons (2008), ISBN 8176255610, page 66:
 * This clearly indicates, the newly married young lady suffers from gamophobia.
 * 2005, C. L. McGranaghan, The Analyst, a Corporate Novel, ISBN 9781411606494, page 57:
 * He explained that a recent University of Indiana study indicated that almost twice as many men as women had gamophobia, fear of marriage, but that almost twice as many women as men had genophobia, fear of sex.
 * 2013, Gregg M. Horowitz, "A Made-to-Order Witness: Women's Knowledge in Vertigo", in Vertigo (ed. Katalin Makkai), Routledge (2013), ISBN 9780415494465, page 117:
 * The emasculating injury that has put Jeff in a cast also sets the narrative of Rear Window in motion: because his broken leg makes him unable to flee from Lisa to photograph yet another adventure, it deprives Jeff's gamophobia of its characteristic defensive expression as restless activity and so unmasks the castration anxiety beneath for all to see.