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misogamy

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Hatred of or opposition to marriage

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Equivalents

Portuguêsmisogamia
日本語厭婚
1 more languages
Catalàmisogàmia

Examples

Misogamy flourished in twelfth-century clerical culture, and there's no shortage of ideas about wives that the author of Sawles Warde could have drawn on, from Peter Abelard, Walter Map, John of Salisbury, and Hugh of Folietto all of whom wrote treatises denigrating the value of marriage.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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