anthropopathicadj.
/ˌanθrəpəˈpaθɪk/, U.S. /ˌænθrəpəˈpæθɪk/ Characterized by or involving the attribution of human feelings and emotions to something other than a human being, esp. to God; displaying anthropopathy.
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1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xii. 22 To make him [sc. God]..so passionate as in effect he shold be altogether Anthropopathis.]
1810 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1973) III. 3963 The Arminian..accuses the Calvinist of making the practical depend on the speculative reason, & sacrificing the Law of the conscience which demands an unconditional authority, to the conditions of an anthropopathic Metaphysics.
1847 J. Torrey tr. A. Neander Gen. Hist. Christian Relig. & Church II. 308 The anthropopathic form of conception, which has its truth in the fact that man was created in the image of God.
1874 H. Rogers Superhuman Origin Bible vii. 300 The daring anthropopathic imagery by which the prophets often represent God as chiding, upbraiding, threatening.
1912 Harvard Theol. Rev. 5 528 Yet in both cases an anthropopathic relation with a personal being is established.
1999 Evening Post (Nottingham) (Nexis) 25 Feb. Emotive anthropopathic headlines like ‘Pigeons did us proud in wars’ do not address the simple fact that pigeons do not possess human feelings.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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