misogamistn.
/mᵻˈsɒɡəmɪst/, /mʌɪˈsɒɡəmɪst/, U.S. /məˈsɑɡəməst/ A person who hates or is opposed to marriage.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [noun] > hatred of marriage > one who
marriage hater1692
misogamist1706
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Misogamist, a Marriage-hater.
1780 M. Madan Thelyphthora II. 89 (note) Notwithstanding all the bitterness of that gloomy misogamist Jerome.
1877 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Mignon I. 34 A cynical old misogamist.
1914 ‘Bartimeus’ Naval Occasions xxiv. 245 We shall drift together, blighted misogamists.
1973 19th-cent. Fiction 28 323 Moore..sees Jane Austen as a ‘cynical’ misogamist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1706- to see after
- to see and serve
- to see and to be seen
- to see any green in one's eye
- to see anything green in one's eye
- to see around
- to see at eye
- to see away
- to see beyond one's nose
- to see coming
- to see company
- to see day
- to see daylight
- to see double
- to see etc of
- to see eye to eye
- to see face to face
- to see face with face
- to see fair
- to see fair play
- to see far in a millstone
- to see far into a millstone
- to see far through a millstone
- to see fashions
- to see for