Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for A-PHI-LAN'THRO-PY
A-PHI-LAN'THRO-PY, n. [of α neg. and φιλανθρωπια, of φιλεω, to love, and ανθρωπος, man.]
Want of love to mankind. In medicine, the first stage of melancholy, when solitude is preferred to society. Coxe.
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