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misanthropise

misanthropise is the alternative form of misanthropize.

Meaning of misanthropize

Verb

misanthropize (third-person singular simple present misanthropizes, present participle misanthropizing, simple past and past participle misanthropized)

  1. (intransitive) To hate mankind.
    • A thousand cunning things they do, To urge me to misanthropize; My heart is filled with endless rue — (It does no good to alkalize).1957, High Points in the Work of the High Schools of New York City
  2. (transitive) To make misanthropic
    • The contemptible ignorance, credulity, and fraud, which support its tyrannous authority, as a supernatural revelation, and the futile attempt to enforce a belief of its liberal meaning as indispensable to the happiness of mankind, and the universal degradation and miserty which it perpetuates, by...1842, Logan Mitchell, The Christian mythology unveiled, lectures, page 40

Forms of misanthropise

third-person singular presentmisanthropises
present participlemisanthropising
past participlemisanthropised
pastmisanthropised

Questions about misanthropise

What is misanthropise the alternative form of?
Misanthropise is the alternative form of misanthropize.

Words near misanthropise in the dictionary

  1. misanthropia
  2. misanthropic
  3. misanthropical
  4. misanthropically
  5. misanthropies
  6. misanthropise
  7. misanthropised
  8. misanthropises
  9. misanthropising
  10. misanthropism
  11. misanthropist

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