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misogynist|maɪs-, mɪˈsɒdʒɪnɪst| Also 7 -genyst. [f. Gr. µῑσογύνης (f. µῑσο- miso + γύνη woman) + -ist.] A woman-hater.
1620Swetnam Arraigned i. ii. A 4 [Mysogenos loq.] Swetnams name, Will be more terrible in womens eares, Then euer yet Misogenysts hath beene. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. i. xii. §3 Junius, at the first little better then a Misogynist, was afterwards so altered from himself, that he successively married foure wives. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) I. 308 That surly old misogynist, as he was deemed, Sir Oliver. 1858Thackeray Virgin. xxxiv. (1878) 274 ‘Confound all women, I say’, muttered the young misogynist. 1900W. L. Courtney Idea of Tragedy 104 Many critics have called him [sc. Euripides] misogynist, and certainly he says very hard things of the female sex. Hence miˈsogynism = misogyny; misogyˈnistic, -gyˈnistical adjs. = misogynic.
1821New Monthly Mag. I. 88 The sentiment has been re-echoed by every misogynistic satirist. 1830H. N. Coleridge Grk. Poets (1834) 274 Euripides did not indulge his supposed misogynism beyond the taste of his audience. 1850J. Brown Horæ Subs., Locke & Sydenham (1858) 10 This misogynistical rosicrucian was brought over to Oxford by Boyle. 1876H. Kingsley Grange Garden I. 30 Ben Jonson in his hideous misogynism. 1891Harper's Mag. Jan. 196/2 The misogynistic lament that ‘Adam ever lost a rib’. |