Misogamy
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Hatred of or opposition to marriage uncountable
"Misogamy flourished in twelfth-century clerical culture, and there's no shortage of ideas about wives that the author of Sawles Warde could have drawn on, from Peter Abelard, Walter Map, John of Salisbury, and Hugh of Folietto all of whom wrote treatises denigrating the value of marriage."
- 2 hatred of marriage wordnet
Example
More examples"Misogamy flourished in twelfth-century clerical culture, and there's no shortage of ideas about wives that the author of Sawles Warde could have drawn on, from Peter Abelard, Walter Map, John of Salisbury, and Hugh of Folietto all of whom wrote treatises denigrating the value of marriage."
Etymology
From miso- + -gamy.
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