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单词 timon
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Timonn.1

Brit. /ˈtʌɪmən/, /ˈtʌɪmɒn/, U.S. /ˈtaɪmən/
Etymology: < Greek Τίμων, personal name.
The name of a noted misanthrope of Athens, the hero of Shakespeare's play of the same name; hence, one like Timon, a misanthrope.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > misanthropy > [noun] > misanthrope
man-hater1579
Misanthropos1579
Timonist1590
Timon1598
misanthropist1648
misanthrope1683
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 168 And Crittick Tymon laugh at idle toyes. View more context for this quotation
1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists i. ii. 16 You shew'd so much Aversion, as wou'd make one believe you a compleat Timon, or Manhater.
1819 Lady Morgan in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 281 She had grown into a sort of female Timon—not of Athens—bitter, and always going over old, past scenes.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 June 6/1 Both Mr. Ruskin and Mr. Froude have long been known as highly cultivated disciples of the latter-day Timon of Cheyne-row.

Derivatives

Tiˈmonian adj. of, pertaining to, or like Timon.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > misanthropy > [adjective]
misanthropical1621
misanthrope1757
misanthropic1762
Timonian1770
unphilanthropic1802
1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1851) II. 997/1 He left his Timonian retreat.
ˈTimonism n. misanthropy.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > misanthropy > [noun]
misanthropy1656
misanthropism1813
Timonism1886
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 June 6/1 No new Timon arose, for Timonism had been found out to be a fraud.
ˈTimonist n. a misanthrope.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > misanthropy > [noun] > misanthrope
man-hater1579
Misanthropos1579
Timonist1590
Timon1598
misanthropist1648
misanthrope1683
1590 R. Greene Mourning Garment 2 Yet was he not..such a Timonist but he would familiarly conuerse with his friends.
1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. L3 I did it to retyre me from the world; And turne my Muse into a Timonist.
ˈTimonize v. (intransitive) to play the Timon or misanthrope.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > misanthropy > [verb (intransitive)]
Timonize1707
misanthropize1846
1707 W. Darrell Gentleman Instructed: 2nd Pt. ii. viii. 146 I should be tempted to Timonize, and clap a Satyr upon our whole Species.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

timontemonn.2

Etymology: < French timon, temon pole, staff, handle of rudder, helm, < Latin tēmōn-em beam, pole.
Obsolete. rare.
The rudder of a ship.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > steering equipment > [noun] > rudder
ruddereOE
governailc1384
steerer1398
gubernaclec1425
timon1511
wooden bridle1614
main-piece1850
1392–3 Earl Derby's Expedition (Camd.) 225 Item pro reparacione j tymon per le scriuen.]
1511 Pylgrymage Richarde Guylforde (Pynson) f. lv Tournynge with suche vyolence yt with the Iumpe and stroke of ye falle of ye Galye to the Rok the strene [sic] called the Temon stert and flewe frome the hokes.
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