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MISADVENTURE

Volume 14 · 54 words · 1823 Edition

in common language, signifies

in Law, has an especial signification for the killing a man partly by negligence, and partly by chance. See HOMICIDE.

MISANTHROPY. (from μίσος, hatred, and ἄνθρωπος, a man); a general dislike or aversion to man, and mankind. In which sense it stands opposed to philanthropy, or the love of mankind.