anthropopathy
noun
ascription of human passions or feelings to a being or beings not human, especially to a deity.
anthropopathic
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a word derived from
anthropopathy.
Example Sentences
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Yet in both cases an anthropopathic relation with a personal being is established.
From The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion by James H. (James Henry) Leuba
The mechanical behaviour differs from the anthropopathic by the absence of any reference to personal beings.
From The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion by James H. (James Henry) Leuba
The old anthropopathic interpretation, which interpolates anthropomorphic and yet superhuman intervention between the events that follow one another uniformly, has maintained itself on into the modern metaphysical hypotheses.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
Towards animals and men, animal behaviour is similar to that of men when dealing with invisible anthropopathic beings.
From The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion by James H. (James Henry) Leuba
The natural attributes of the Deity have a more spiritual and less anthropopathic aspect in the New Testament than in the Old.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock
