anthropomorphitism

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anthropomorphitism (usually uncountable, plural anthropomorphitisms)

  1. Alternative form of anthropomorphism
    • 1815, William Wordsworth, “Preface”, in Poems [], volume I, London: [] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, [], →OCLC, pages xxix–xxx:
      I select these writers in preference to those of ancient Greece and Rome , because the anthropomorphitism of the Pagan religion subjected the minds of the greatest poets in those countries too much to the bondage of definite form; from which the Hebrews were preserved by their abhorrence of idolatry.