Womanhater

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who hates women or the female sex; a misogynist.

    "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?"

Example

More examples

"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?"

Etymology

From woman + hater.

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