Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fondness or admiration for women; love of women: the opposite of
misogyny .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Fondness for women; uxoriousness; -- opposed to
misogyny .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The love or
fondness for women.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun admiration for women
Etymologies
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phil- + -o- + -gyny
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Examples
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a curtain over this scene, from that philogyny which is in us, and proceed to matters which, instead of dishonouring the human species, will greatly raise and ennoble it.
The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great Henry Fielding 1730
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Emotional preaching afflicts him with "jerks," golf has a tendency to paresis, the round dance infects him with philogyny and bicycling deforms his face.
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