psilanthropist

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ψιλός (psilós, “bare, mere”) + ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “man”) + -ism.

Noun

psilanthropist (plural psilanthropists)

1. One who believes that Jesus Christ was a mere man.
   • 1812, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Omniana:

     the theanthropist is a Christian, the psilanthropist cannot be so ; and vice versa