Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
anthropopathism , 1.
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- noun The attribution of
human emotions to agod .
Etymologies
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anthropo- + -pathy
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Examples
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Certainly, therefore, anger, and the like affections, can by no means be ascribed to the infinitely perfect God in the proper and usual acceptation of the words, but only by an anthropopathy; attributing that to God, which bears some analogy and proportion to what we find in men.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823
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This anthropopathy is a figure by which God is interpreted to us after the intelligible forms of humanity.
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