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psilanthropism|psaɪˈlænθrəpɪz(ə)m|
[f. eccl. Gr. ψῑλάνθρωπ-ος merely human (f. ψῑλός bare, mere + ἄνθρωπος man) + -ism.]
The doctrine that Jesus Christ was a mere man.
c1810Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 260 The conclusion is, that between the Homoousian scheme and mere Psilanthropism there is no intelligible medium. 1825― Aids Refl. (1848) I. 163 The true designation of their characteristic tenet..is Psilanthropism, or the assertion of the mere humanity of Christ. 1866J. Martineau Ess. I. 368 He embraced..the ‘Psilanthropism’ of the sect.
So psiˈlanthropist, one who holds this doctrine; = humanitarian 1; psiˈlanthropy = psilanthropism.
c1810Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 241 Against those *Psilanthropists who as falsely, as arrogantly, call themselves Unitarians. 1883Ch. Q. Rev. XV. 280 Socrates..says he cannot treat Nestorius as a Psilanthropist.
1864Webster, *Psilanthropy. 1876E. Mellor Priesth. vii. 339 To allege that [they] see in the phrase, ‘son of man’, nothing more than a barren psilanthropy. |
