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ˈman-hater
A hater of mankind; a misanthrope. Also occas., a hater of the male sex.
1579–80North Plutarch, Alcib. (1598) 218 Timon surnamed Misanthropus (as who would say, Loup-garou, or the manhater). 1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. Concl. 60 What will these man-haters yet with more despight and mischiefe do? 1678Shadwell (title) The History of Timon of Athens, the Man-hater. 1714Mandeville Fab. Bees (1725) I. 386, I would have no sagacious critick pronounce me a man⁓hater... I am a great lover of company. 1759Goldsm. Polite Learn. vi, Rousseau, of Geneva, a professed man-hater. 1827Carlyle Germ. Lit. in Misc. Ess. (1872) I. 32 The grimmest manhaters..will be found in abundance. 1885Stevenson Pr. Otto ii. ii. 85 Essentially he is to be numbered among the man-haters. 1896Westm. Gaz. 5 Mar. 3/3 It is in no way true that we are man-haters and discontented women. |