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.
| c 1810 Coleridge 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. 1866 J. Martineau Ess. I. 368 He embraced..the ‘Psilanthropism’ of the sect. |
So
psiˈlanthropist, one who holds this doctrine;
= humanitarian 1;
psiˈlanthropy = psilanthropism.
| c 1810 Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 241 Against those *Psilanthropists who as falsely, as arrogantly, call themselves Unitarians. 1883 Ch. Q. Rev. XV. 280 Socrates..says he cannot treat Nestorius as a Psilanthropist. |
| 1864 Webster, *Psilanthropy. 1876 E. Mellor Priesth. vii. 339 To allege that [they] see in the phrase, ‘son of man’, nothing more than a barren psilanthropy. |