Citations:Timonian

Adjective: of a form of bitter misanthropy

 * 1770, 's translation of :
 * None of these things, however, disturbed him; for, at once abandoning his hopes and his cares, he left his Timonian retreat, and returned to Alexandria;
 * 1939, in :
 * Yesterday Hamilton College doctored Ezra Loomis Pound, the Idaho lad who was graduated from it in 1905. In his habitual Timonian mood he has, time and time again, taken the hide off American professors.
 * 1962,, :
 * Kinbote, Charles, Dr., [...]; his modesty, 34; his having no library in his Timonian cave, 39; his belief in his having inspired S, 42;
 * 1979, Byron Gassman, in :
 * [...], as the discussion develops, the focus is generally on something rather different from this non-Timonian misanthropy of Swift.
 * 1988,, "Gulliver among the Horses":
 * Claude Rawson, similarly, finds a certain doubleness in the final Timonian misanthropy of Gulliver.
 * 2002, Lawrence I. Berkove, A Prescription for Adversity:
 * Like Swift, whom he admired and imitated and with whom he had much in common, Bierce was a man who hated boldly and well and yet was not a Timonian misanthrope.