psilanthropism
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[edit]Noun
[edit]psilanthropism (uncountable)
- psilanthropy
- 1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Conclusion”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume II, London: Rest Fenner, […], →OCLC, page 308:
- [I]n speaking theologically and impersonally, i. e. of Psilanthropism and Theanthropism as schemes of Belief, without referrence to Individuals who profess either the one or the other, it will be absurd to use a different language as long as it is the dictate of common sense, that two opposites cannot properly be called by the same name.