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Webster 1913 Edition


Theanthropism

The-an′thro-pism

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Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK] god + [GREEK] man.]
1.
A state of being God and man.
[R.]
Coleridge.
2.
The ascription of human atributes to the Deity, or to a polytheistic deity; anthropomorphism.
Gladstone.

Definition 2024


theanthropism

theanthropism

English

Noun

theanthropism (uncountable)

  1. A state of being God and man.
    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
      [I]n speaking theologically and impersonally, i. e. of Psilanthropism and Theanthropism as schemes of belief, without reference to individuals, who profess either the one or the other, it will be absurd to use a different language as long as it is the dictate of common sense, that two opposites can not properly be called by the same name.
  2. The ascription of human attributes to a deity.
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