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adj
Of a form of bitter misanthropy related to Timonism, like Timon of Athens.
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noun
A sort of bitter misanthrope related to Timonism, like Timon of Athens.
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History
From Timon + -ist, after the 5th-century-BCE person Timon of Athens (as described by Plutarch, Lucian, and Aristophanes). Used by Robert Greene in his Greene's Mourning Garment (1590). (William Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens is usually estimated c. 1607 and would not have influenced Greene; however, some consider the play could be one of Shakespeare's earliest, and could then have been Greene's source.)
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