单词 | misanthropize |
释义 | † misanthropizev. Obsolete. 1. intransitive. To give rise to misanthropy. ΚΠ 1838 F. W. Robertson Let. in S. A. Brooke Life & Lett. (1865) 20 All that has grieved and disappointed and misanthropised will be fully explained. 2. intransitive. To be a misanthrope; to hate humankind. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > misanthropy > [verb (intransitive)] Timonize1707 misanthropize1846 1846 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 59 169/1 Misanthropizing under the pangs of grief or unrequited love. 1849 C. Kingsley Poetry Sacred Art in Misc. (1860) I. 264 What a place for some ‘gloom-pampered man’ to sit and misanthropize. 1891 F. M. Wilson Primer on Browning 190 Abandoning the world to misanthropise in a distant solitude. 1927–9 H. Wheeler Waverley Children's Dict. V. 2785/1 The misanthrope or misanthropist..often avoids the society of other people in order to misanthropize..or hate mankind in gloomy solitude. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.1838 |
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