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
   • To genuflect is not to misanthropize. To contemplate, even worship, deity is not to misanthropize. To understand man as laughing guanine, as the tarsier that skipped a few grades, may be to berate us, may be to misanthropize.2001, Adrian Trehorse, The Last Angry White Man, page 342
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
   • His ways are indeed wonderful, — how wonderful, eternity alone can show, where we shall see the connection of what we are pleased to call trivial events with His most stupendous schemes, and all that is dark and difficult and melancholy in this unintelligible world, all that gives our presumptuous...1869, Stopford Augustus Brooke, Life and Letters of Frederick W. Robertson, page 38