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misanthropize, v.|mɪˈsænθrəpaɪz|
[f. Gr. µῑσάνθρωπ-ος misanthrope + -ize.]
1. intr. To be a misanthrope; to hate mankind.
1846Blackw. Mag. LIX. 169/1 Misanthropizing under the pangs of grief or unrequited love. 1849Kingsley Misc. (1859) II. 264 What a place for some ‘gloom-pampered man’ to sit and misanthropize. 1891F. M. Wilson Primer on Browning 190 Abandoning the world to misanthropise in a distant solitude.
2. trans. (in quot. absol.) To cause to be misanthropic.
1838F. W. Robertson Let. in Brooke Life & Lett. 20 All that has grieved and disappointed and misanthropised will be fully explained. |