misogynistn.adj.

1620 Swetnam Arraigned i. ii. sig. A 4 [Mysogenos loq.] Swetnams name, Will be more terrible in womens eares, Then euer yet Misogenysts hath beene.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State i. xii. 38 Junius, at the first little better then a Misogynist, was afterwards so altered from himself, that he successively married foure wives.

1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xl. 278 That surly old Misogynist, as he was deemed, Sir Oliver.

1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VI. xxx. 119 The few legitimate sons of Adam, whose breasts never felt what the sting of love was,—(maintaining first, all mysogynists to be bastards).

1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. ii. 33 An early disappointment in love, in virtue of which he had commenced misogynist, as he called it.

1858 W. M. Thackeray Virginians (1878) xxxiv. 274 ‘Confound all women, I say’, muttered the young misogynist.

1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere III. vi. xlvi. 310 He was unmarried, and a misogynist to boot. No woman willingly went near him.

1956 J. Baldwin Giovanni's Room ii. iv. 183 I think men like that idea, it strokes the misogynist in them.

1995 New Yorker 19 June 34/2 It's an incongruous scene, where old-school misogynists mix it up with radical feminists.

1920 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 7 294 Christopher Harrison, a mysogynist Marylander who went to Indiana in the early part of the nineteenth century.

1979 Maclean's 8 Oct. 50/3 The misogynist Canadian society.

1985 Jrnl. Politics 47 314 Primitive and traditional societies tend to be very misogynist and authoritarian, but also to revere nature.