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:
someone who dislikes people -- and often distrusts them