misogynize

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

misogyny +‎ -ize

Verb[edit]

misogynize (third-person singular simple present misogynizes, present participle misogynizing, simple past and past participle misogynized)

  1. (transitive, rare) To treat in a misogynistic manner.
    • 2000, Joe Aldred, Sisters With Power, page 119:
      Professor Weems can be placed within all of the approaches, as her work not only looks at the reclaiming of the black women from within the texts in a liberative form, but also rejects those scriptures that dehumanize and misogynize women.
    • 2012, Fiona MacCarthy, The Last Pre-Raphaelite:
      If you fail me I shall misanthropize, misogynize, misobrephize, shut myself up in a cell(ar).