misanthropise

English

Verb

misanthropise (third-person singular simple present misanthropises, present participle misanthropising, simple past and past participle misanthropised)

1. Alternative form of misanthropize
   • 1871, Joseph Longland, Bernard Alvers and the War witch, page 79:

     Selfishness civilises, monopolises, and misanthropises.

   • 1888, The Lady's Book - Volumes 6-7, page 243:

     Disgusted with the world and worldlings, I drove down to an estate of my father's, in Suffolk, determined to “misanthropise” and be romantic ; but all my plans were disconcerted by the “Large blue eyes, fair locks, and snowy hands” of Miss Emily Hathenden, whose estate bordered on my own.

   • 1891, F. Mary Wilson, A Primer on Browning, page 190:

     The older man, whose life has been a failure, notwithstanding his large measure of ability and what must be called personal magnetism, crossed the young one's path when the latter was suffering from a disappointment in love for which he purposed abandoning the world to misanthropise in a distant solitude.

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• misanthropies