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plural womanhaters
- 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 3112 more examples
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 25The 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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