Misanthrope vs Timonize - What's the difference?
misanthrope | timonize |
To behave as a misanthrope.
* 1713 , , The Gentleman Instructed , 5th edition:See OED.
To cause (someone) to slide into bitter misanthropy, into Timonism.
* 1852 , , Harper & Brothers,
* 1983 , Michael L. Ross, "
English eponyms
As a noun misanthrope
is one who hates all mankind; one who hates the human race.As a verb timonize is
to behave as a misanthrope.misanthrope
English
Synonyms
* misanthropistAntonyms
* philanthropeSee also
* misanthropy (hatred of humans) * misanthropic * misandry (hatred of males) * misogyny (hatred of females) * philanthropy (love of humans) * philanthropic * philanthropist * philandry (love of males) * philogyny (love of females) * Timonist (bitter misanthrope) * xenophobe (hater of foreigners)timonize
English
Alternative forms
* TimoniseVerb
(Timoniz)- I should be tempted to Timonize , and clap a Satyr upon our whole Species.
page 348:
- And it may well be believed, that after the wonderful vital world-revelation so suddenly made to Pierre at the Meadows—a revelation which, at moments, in some certain things, fairly Timonized him—he had not failed to clutch with peculiar nervous detestation and contempt that ample parcel, containing the letters of his Biographico and other silly correspondents, which, in a less ferocious hour, he had filed away as curiosities.
Lawrence's letters", in Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies , volume 3, number 1 (Summer 1983), page 58:
- Lawrence's progressive alienation from his countrymen and finally from humanity – as it were, the "Timonizing " process that overcame him – went hand in hand with his estrangement from Russell.
Derived terms
* Timonization * TimonizingReferences
* OED, "Timon [feat. Timonian, Timonism, Timonist, Timonize]" in the(reproduced in a post)* SEG, "Timonize" in Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (supplement to James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps), A supplementary English glossary , 1881 (
full text at Archive.org] or [http://books.google.com/books?id=6YkMAQAAIAAJ&q=timonize p. 656 at Google Books) * Notes: