Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hater of marriage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A hater of marriage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person with a dislike or hatred of
marriage
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who hates marriage
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Examples
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The misogamist suffered himself to be led to the double-berthed compartment he shared with Thorogood.
The Long Trick 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926
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The first was an intimation from the misogamist German
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895
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As the Herr Professor was a septuagenarian and a misogamist, even in
Merely Mary Ann Israel Zangwill 1895
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As the Herr Professor was a septuagenarian and a misogamist, even in
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895
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St. Elmo, you are the most abominable misogamist I ever met, and you deserve to fall into the clutches of those 'eight mighty daughters of the plow,' to which Tennyson's Princess consigned the
St. Elmo 1872
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St. Elmo, you are the most abominable misogamist I ever met, and you deserve to fall into the clutches of those 'eight mighty daughters of the plow,' to which Tennyson's Princess consigned the Prince.
St. Elmo. A Novel. Augusta Jane 1867
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The master, though not a misogamist, was certainly not a lover of the diviner sex, and could not be supposed to look with patience, or even tolerance, on the foolery of love-making.
Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p. 1847
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Ambi Both directions skill Misanthrope person who hates mankind Misein To hate misogamist person who hates marriage Gyne Women Gynaeocologistthe medical specialist who treats female disorders misogynist person who hates women Anthropologythe study of the development of the human race philanthropistone who loves mankind
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The memorable quote from the misogamist Wilde strikes not so much at the absence of women across the Chinese population as a direct result of the one-child policy; that is a subject of a future discussion.
Asia Times Online 2009
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- Hesther '(addressing his wife),' I was like him when I was his age - a regular misogamist; and, behold! by the time I was three - and twenty - being then a tourist in France and Italy, and the Lord knows where - I curled my hair every night before I went to bed, and wore a ring i 'my ear, and would have worn one i' my nose if it had been the fashion, and all that I might make myself pleasing and charming to the ladies.
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