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单词 misogamy
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misogamyn.

Brit. /mᵻˈsɒɡəmi/, /mʌɪˈsɒɡəmi/, U.S. /məˈsɑɡəmi/
Forms: 1600s misogamie, 1800s– misogamy.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin misogamia.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin misogamia (1612 or earlier) < Byzantine Greek μισόγαμος hating marriage (Stephanus; < ancient Greek μισο- miso- comb. form + γάμος marriage: see -gamy comb. form) + post-classical Latin -ia -y suffix3. Compare French misogame, adjective (1582 in Middle French), misogamie, noun (1818), German Misogamie.
Hatred of or opposition to marriage.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [noun] > hatred of marriage
misogamy1656
c1560 Sir T. Smith in J. Strype Life (1698) App. 24 You may well be called Mr. Agamus or Misogamus, Surnamed in right English, Wedspite, or Spitewed. For I never heard Man speak so despitefully against Wedding and Marriage of the Queens Majesty in my Life.]
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Misogamie (misogamia), hating of marriage.
a1834 C. Lamb Let. to Coleridge (L.) It is misogyny rather than misogamy that he affects.
1857 Chambers's Jrnl. 8 397 Not through any foolish independence of mankind, or adventurous misogamy.
1973 19th-cent. Fiction 28 338 Emma Woodhouse's misogamy is satirized..because the novelist..is dramatizing one of several ways in which Emma's foibles blind her to truths about herself and about her relationships.
1995 Jrnl. Popular Film & Television (Electronic ed.) 23 9 Jan. The misogyny and misogamy harbored by mountain veterans who prefer being alone or exclusively in the company of men.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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