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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Hatred of marriage.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Hatred of marriage.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Hatred of or opposition to marriage

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Hatred of marriage.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. hatred of marriage

Etymologies

  1. From miso- + -gamy. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Obviously infected by misogyny (hatred of women) and misogamy (the propaganda against marriage) is the Hebrew maqama literature that flourished in the thirteenth century.”

    Medieval Hebrew Literature: Portrayal of Women.

  • “HOWARD KURTZ, RELIABLE SOURCES: Coming up, Hillary Clinton fighting for political survival complains about sexism and misogamy in the media.”

    CNN Transcript May 25, 2008

  • “So when you hear the words out of a rapper's mouth, suddenly now you recognize misogamy or that we're racist?”

    CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2007

  • “Extreme poverty, high mortality rates related to malnutrition and childbirth; and a culture of misogamy are still bleak features of everyday life in Afghanistan.”

    Reidblog [The Reid Report blog]

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