zoophilite
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]zoophilite (plural zoophilites)
- (chiefly dated, rare) A person who is fond of animals.
- Synonym: zoophilist
- 1889, The Animal's Defender and Zoophilist, volume 8, page 70:
- At the end of some three-score years since the earliest was founded, the various Zoophilite Societies in the Kingdom — Societies for Prevention of Cruelty, Anti-vivisection Societies, and Homes for Horses and for Lost Dogs — may possibly possess, including legacies and subscriptions, some forty thousand a-year between them all.
- 1970, The Commonwealth Forestry Review, volumes 49-50, page 101:
- She is first and foremost a zoophilite and as such has no fear whatever of wild animals.