anthropomorphist
(-ˈmɔːfɪst)
[n. of agent f. anthropomorphize: see -ist.]
One who uses anthropomorphism, or attributes a human personality to God, abstract ideas, other animals, etc.
| a 1617 Bayne Ephes. (1866) 33 For to measure God by our scantling..is fitter for doating anthropomorphists than grave divines. 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 98 The Greeks were essentially anthropomorphists. 1878 Emerson in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 414 What anthropomorphists we are..that we cannot let moral distinctions be, but must mould them into human shape. |