misogamy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Misogamy flourished in twelfth-century clerical culture, and there's no shortage of ideas about wives that the author of Sawles Warde could have drawn on, from Peter Abelard, Walter Map, John of Salisbury, and Hugh of Folietto all of whom wrote treatises denigrating the value of marriage."

Etymology tree English miso- Proto-Indo-European *ǵem-der. Ancient Greek γᾰ́μος (gắmos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -γαμία (-gamía)bor. English -gamy English misogamy From miso- + -gamy.

misogamist

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What does misogamy mean?

Hatred of or opposition to marriage

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