anthropophuism
English edit
Etymology edit
Ancient Greek [Term?] (“man”) + [Term?] (“nature”) + -ism
Noun edit
anthropophuism (uncountable)
- Human nature.
- 1858, W[illiam] E[wart] Gladstone, “Sect. V. The Olympian Community and Its Members, Considered in Themselves.”, in Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age. […], volume II (Olympus: Or, The Religion of the Homeric Age), Oxford, Oxfordshire: University Press, →OCLC, part, page 332:
- Thus, then, while we see the spirit of anthropophuism breaking down the principle of the Unity of God, from its being too feeble and too blind to maintain the pure traditions in which it was conveyed, it is still curious to the last degree to observe the order and symmetry of the Greek mind, even in its destructive processes.
- The ascription of human nature to the gods.
References edit
“anthropophuism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.