Both Uses of
misanthrope
in
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- During all those times I'd thought he was convalescing in the grip of some misanthropic fit, was he instead far away from the ship, involved in some secret activity whose nature still eluded me?†
Chpt 2 *
- It was no ordinary misanthropy that kept Captain Nemo and his companions sequestered inside the Nautilus's plating, but a hate so monstrous or so sublime that the passing years could never weaken it.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
someone who dislikes people -- and often distrusts them