单词 | anti-matrimonialist |
释义 | > as lemmasanti-matrimonialist anti-matrimonialist n. and adj. Brit. /ˌantɪmatrᵻˈməʊnɪəlɪst/ , U.S. /ˌæn(t)iˌmætrəˈmoʊniələst/ , /ˌænˌtaɪˌmætrəˈmoʊniələst/ , /ˌæn(t)əˌmætrəˈmoʊniələst/ [ < anti- prefix + matrimonial adj. + -ist suffix] ΚΠ 1688 Pleasures Matrimony ii. 64 Your Anti-Matrimonialists, that cry down Matrimony, because they would have all Women lie common. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xix. 87 If she make a private purse, which we are told by anti-matrimonialists, all wives love to do. 1911 10th Year Bk. (Bibliophile Soc., Boston (Mass.)) 113 Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin..was the legitimate daughter of two renowned ‘anti-matrimonialist’ philosophers of a hundred to a hundred and twenty years ago. 1992 A. Leighton Victorian Women Poets iii. 103 She could be as scornful on the subject [of marriage] as the notorious anti-matrimonialist, George Sand. < as lemmas |
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