"Timonize" meaning in English

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          "text": "I should be tempted to Timonize, and clap a Satyr upon our whole Species."
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        "To behave as a misanthrope."
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        "(intransitive) To behave as a misanthrope."
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          "ref": "1852, Herman Melville, Pierre: or, The Ambiguities, Harper & Brothers, page 348:",
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          "ref": "1983, Michael L. Ross, \"Lawrence's letters\", in Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, volume 3, number 1 (Summer 1983), page 58",
          "text": "Lawrence's progressive alienation from his countrymen and finally from humanity – as it were, the \"Timonizing\" process that overcame him – went hand in hand with his estrangement from Russell."
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        "To cause (someone) to slide into bitter misanthropy, into Timonism."
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        "(transitive) To cause (someone) to slide into bitter misanthropy, into Timonism."
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        }
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