Definition of "anthropopathy" [anthropopathy]

• The attribution of human emotions to a god. (noun)

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• "Certainly, therefore, anger, and the like affections, can by no means be ascribed to the infinitely perfect God in the proper and usual acceptation of the words, but only by an anthropopathy; attributing that to God, which bears some analogy and proportion to what we find in men."
• "This anthropopathy is a figure by which God is interpreted to us after the intelligible forms of humanity."