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womanhater

noun

Etymology

From woman + hater.

  1. inherited from hatere
  2. compounded as womanhater — “woman + hater”

Definitions

  1. One who hates women or the female sex

    One who hates women or the female sex; a misogynist.

    • I suppose, the gentleman’s a womanhater; but, Sir, I think you ought to remember, that you had a mother: and pray, if it had not been for a woman, where would you have been, colonel?
    • From his insertion of these strictures on women, which are not the most courtly, it has been inferred that he was a womanhater; but that he was not so, appears from some of his prologues, especially from that to the ‘Knight of the Tower.’
    • The petticoated-intrusion may be resented by a few cross-grained “theologs,” bachelors before their time, or womanhaters because some boarding-school miss has failed to fulfill their idea of fidelity.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA