Showing results for "anthropomorphous"

• a variation of anthropomorphic.

anthropomorphous

British  

/ ˌænθrəpəˈmɔːfəs /

adjective

1. shaped like a human being

2. another word for anthropomorphic

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Other Word Forms

• anthropomorphously
  adverb

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Example Sentences

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anthropomorphous

But affliction makes opposing forces loom anthropomorphous; and those ideas were now exchanged for a sense of Jude and herself fleeing from a persecutor.

From Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Here man may have remained for a period, peculiar to a single island, just as some of the large anthropomorphous species are now limited to one island within the tropics.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell

Among the few species already detected, two at least belong to the anthropomorphous class.

From The Antiquity of Man by Sir Charles Lyell

All the expressions which had attached a living force to natural objects would remain as the description of personal and anthropomorphous gods.

From Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning by T. W. Doane

Linked through the ages, one and all, In long anthropomorphous chain, The human and the animal Inseparably must remain.

From One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue by Julius Madison Cawein

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