Both Uses of
misanthrope
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- To modern eyes some of them looked like artistic representations of certain human ideals--the dignity of old age, the innocence of youth, the technical struggles of the craftsman, and so forth--or sometimes they looked like representations of ideals beyond human understanding: Amu, the Sumerian sky god, for instance, was misanthropic, and Enlil (or Illil, as some texts say), the underworld god, was totally indifferent to man.†
Chpt 7
- The sky god was misanthropic, his brother had said, and the underworld god was totally indifferent to man.†
Chpt 13 *
Definition:
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(misanthrope) someone who dislikes people -- and often distrusts them