anthropomorphitism

Thirdly, The discourse of this section hath a contribution of strength, such as it is, from a squaring of the love of God unto the sweet nature and loving disposition of men; which is perhaps no less gross anthropomorphitism than they were guilty of who assigned him a body and countenance like to ours.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

Mr. Irving inclines one to suspect fashionable or popular religion of a little _anthropomorphitism_, Dr. Chalmers effectually redeems it from that scandal.

The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits William Hazlitt 1804

I select these writers in preference to those of ancient Greece and Rome, because the anthropomorphitism of the Pagan religion subjected the minds of the greatest poets in those countries too much to the bondage of definite form; from which the Hebrews were preserved by their abhorrence of idolatry.

Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730

It is amusing to see the use which the Christian divines make of the very facts in favour of their own religion, with which they triumphantly battered that of the heathens; namely, the gross and sinful anthropomorphitism of their representations of the Deity; and yet the heathen philosophers and priests -- Plutarch for instance -- tell us as plainly as Donne or Aquinas can do, that these are only accommodations to human modes of conception, -- the divine nature being in itself impassible; -- how otherwise could it be the prime agent?

The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820