α. 1600s– woman-hater.
β. 1600s– women-hater.
woman-hatern.
/ˈwʊmənˌheɪtə/, U.S. /ˈwʊmənˌheɪdər/ A person who hates women; a misogynist.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > misanthropy > [noun] > hatred of women > one who
woman-hater1607
misogynist1620
misogyn1817
womanthrope1863
gynophobia1886
feminophobia1960
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β. 1640 R. Brathwait Ar't Asleepe Husband? i. 5 Some harsh Timonist or Women-hater.1698 J. Collier Short View Immorality Eng. Stage iv. 171 This Coarseness [toward women] does not alwaies come from Clowns, and Women-haters.?1750 Comical & Diverting Courtship 6 By your words, one would believe you are a women-hater.1764 Public Advertiser 19 Oct. Let the Mysogynists (or women-haters) of this age, exclaim ever so much against the perfidy..of the fair sex.1819 Examiner 17 Jan. 44/1 The women-haters, the envious, the servile, the tyrannical, [etc.].1889 Outing Feb. 425/2 Even old Herne—women hater that he was—could not have found fault with matronly beauty of her face.1915 Our Jrnl. (Metal Polishers Union of N. Amer.) May 51/2 I want to have Brother Flynn to understand that I am no women-hater, but one who wishes to see them flourish.1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 99/1 The glamour business..is crammed with both women-haters and men-haters of dubious sex polarity.1994 T. Zeldin Intimate Hist. Humanity (1998) xii. 206 Her first war is against 99 percent of the human race, which is her estimate of the proportion of women-haters in it.1607 F. Beaumont (title) The woman hater.
1630 P. Massinger Picture 37 Surely Madam, I am no woman hater.
1729 J. Swift Jrnl. Dublin Lady 1 Against the Sex to Write a Satyr, And Bran'd me for a Woman Hater.
1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. v. 157 She talked with such diffusive charms, as were sufficient to fire the heart of the morosest woman-hater that ever lived.
1847 C. G. F. Gore Castles in Air I. v. 80 A perpetual sense of aggression had converted me, not into a woman-hater, but a woman-spiter.
1877 ‘Rita’ Vivienne I. i. 13 I should scarcely think that the sudden introduction of a young and beautiful woman..into your domestic life was quite welcome to such a woman-hater as yourself.
1911 J. C. Lincoln Woman-haters ix. 171 Mr. Atkins is a woman-hater of the most rabid type.
1971 W. T. H. Jackson Anat. of Love i. 7 These [examples] were diligently collected by enthusiastic woman-haters to form a corpus of violently antifeminist literature.
1997 Daily Tel. 6 Mar. 25/1 Far from appearing a woman-hater, he is actually something of a philogynist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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