womanhater

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A form of woman-hater — One who hates women or the female sex.

Scrabble 18

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nounwomanhater (plural womanhaters)

plural womanhaters

  1. alternativeAlternative form of woman-hater.

    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?

    1738, Jonathan Swift, A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, page 311
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    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.’

    1828, Life of William Caxton, page 25

    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.

    1895–6, Florence Guertin, "The Yale Prom", in Bachelor of Arts, page 365

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