What does womanhater mean?
Womanhater means One who hates women or the female sex; a misogynist..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
One who hates women or the female sex; a misogynist..
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.
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.’
Use womanhater when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Womanhater means One who hates women or the female sex; a misogynist..
Common synonyms include misogynist.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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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