misologistn.

Brit.

/mᵻˈsɒlədʒɪst/,

/mʌɪˈsɒlədʒɪst/, U.S.

/məˈsɑlədʒəst/

Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek μισόλογος , -ist suffix.

Etymology: < ancient Greek μισόλογος (see misologue n.) + -ist suffix; compare -logist comb. form. Compare earlier misology n., misologue n.

1. A person who hates reason or discussion.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [noun] > hatred of reason > one who has

misologue1866

misologist1870

1870 Catholic World Jan. 482/1 Only a return to first principles and to a belief in reason..can give us a basis on which to reintegrate the rights of faith against the modern irrationalists and misologists.

1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 438 As there are misanthropists or haters of men, there are also misologists or haters of ideas.

1930 S. Potter D. H. Lawrence 30 Isn't he one of the reason haters Socrates used to make fun of, calling them misologists?

1987 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 81 497/1 By what right can one assert the ‘utter recklessness’ of a rationally dominant strategy? Or are we simply to dismiss the poet as a rank misologist?

2. A person who hates words. rare.In humorous opposition to philologist n. 2.Quot. 1955 may possibly belong at sense 1.

ΚΠ

1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions ii. iv. 475 What's the name of this book you're writing?—Baedeker's Babel...—And you say you've become a misologist?

1982 T. A. Shippey Road to Middle-Earth 219 He did not mind ‘misologists’ being dull or ignorant.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	misologist
释义	misologistn. Brit. /mᵻˈsɒlədʒɪst/, /mʌɪˈsɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /məˈsɑlədʒəst/ Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek μισόλογος , -ist suffix. Etymology: < ancient Greek μισόλογος (see misologue n.) + -ist suffix; compare -logist comb. form. Compare earlier misology n., misologue n. 1. A person who hates reason or discussion. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [noun] > hatred of reason > one who has misologue1866 misologist1870 1870 Catholic World Jan. 482/1 Only a return to first principles and to a belief in reason..can give us a basis on which to reintegrate the rights of faith against the modern irrationalists and misologists. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 438 As there are misanthropists or haters of men, there are also misologists or haters of ideas. 1930 S. Potter D. H. Lawrence 30 Isn't he one of the reason haters Socrates used to make fun of, calling them misologists? 1987 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 81 497/1 By what right can one assert the ‘utter recklessness’ of a rationally dominant strategy? Or are we simply to dismiss the poet as a rank misologist? 2. A person who hates words. rare.In humorous opposition to philologist n. 2.Quot. 1955 may possibly belong at sense 1. ΚΠ 1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions ii. iv. 475 What's the name of this book you're writing?—Baedeker's Babel...—And you say you've become a misologist? 1982 T. A. Shippey Road to Middle-Earth 219 He did not mind ‘misologists’ being dull or ignorant. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1870
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