Citations:misopogon

English citations of misopogon

Beard-hater

• 1875, Charles Maurice Davies, Mystic London, London / New York: Tinsley Brothers / R. Worthington, Chapter XXII. Penny Readings, pages 172–173 / 140:

  It is true to a proverb that we English people have a knack of doing the best possible things in the worst possible way; and that not, unfrequently, when we do once begin doing them we do them to death. It takes some time to convince us that the particular thing is worth doing at all; but, once persuaded, we go in for it with all our British might and main. The beard-and-mustache movement was a case in point. Some years ago a mustache was looked upon by serious English people as decidedly reckless and dissipated. A beard was fit only for a bandit. Nowadays the mildest youth in the Young Men's Christian Association may wear a mustache without being denounced as “carnal,” and paterfamilias revels in the beard of a sapeur, no misopogon daring to say him nay.

• 1949, Reginald Arthur Reynolds, Beards: Their Social Standing, Religious Involvements, Decorative Possibilities, and Value Offence and Defence Through the Ages, New York City: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1976, →ISBN, page 193:

  But the story is nonetheless highly suspect, as Dulaure shows. It may have been invented by the Abbé Faydit, a misopogon who wished to discredit beards and used this account in an attack on Jean Savaron, one of the ablest scholars who ever defended the beard clerical.

• 1993, Daniel Botkin, “A Bewhiskered Believer: Bewildered By Beard-Bearing Brethren.”, in The Messianic Outreach‎^[1], volume 12, number 3, pages 11–15:

  These parents wanted good role modelsfor their children, and a fuzzy-faced principal in a Christian school did not fit their definition of a good role model. I assured the pastor that if I decided to accept the position as God's will, I would accept shaving my beard as anecessary requirement to doing the will of God. As it turned out, I did not take the job. The reasons I turned it down had nothing to do with shaving. However, this incident, along with the fact that many Christian seminaries forbid students to have beards, got me interested in thesubject of Christian misopogons—beard-haters.

A diatribe against beards (after Emperor Julian's satire, The Misopogon)

• 1784, John Duncombe, “Select Works of the Emperor Julian, and Some Pieces of the Sofphist Libanius, translated from the Greek.”, in Paul Henry Maty, editor, A New Review: With Literary Curiosities, and Literary Intelligence for the Year, volume 6, page 17:

  That Julian was a poet, as well as Frederick, appears from a collection of his verses mentioned also by Libanius (Orat. parent, p. 161) though two small pieces, which I have quoted, and translated in the notes on the misopogon) are all that now remain.

• 1830, “Note by the Editor”, in The Edinburgh Literary Journal, volume 4, page 322:

  We have never, like the Emperor Julian, written a misopogon: — we are neither professedly nor practically a beard-hater, yet we have no patience with so preposterous a beard as our learned correspondent's learned friend would give to the Jewish high priest.