misozoic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]misozoic (comparative more misozoic, superlative most misozoic)
- (rare) life-hating
- 1876, James John Garth Wilkinson, On Human Science: Good and Evil, and on Divine Revelation:
- The torturers of any form of life torture the life. In this they are not only abominators of form, but haters of nature; and the violationist school is misozoic, life-hating; in continuation of that which it also is, misanthropic, or an enemy of mankind.
- 1997, Harry Berger, Peter Erickson, Making Trifles of Terrors: Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare:
- The Duke urges him to prepare for death and to desire it because of life's worthlessness. His image of life is hyperbolically misozoic because he is practicing — and getting off on — homiletics: […]