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单词 misanthropize
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misanthropizev.

Forms: 1800s misanthropize, 1800s misanthropise.
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek μισάνθρωπος , -ize suffix.
Etymology: < ancient Greek μισάνθρωπος misanthrope n. + -ize suffix, after misanthropist n., misanthropy n., misanthropism n. N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (misæ·nþrŏpəiz) /mɪˈsænθrəpaɪz/.
Obsolete.
1. intransitive. To give rise to misanthropy.
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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.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > misanthropy > [verb (intransitive)]
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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).
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