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- noun The removal of a thing's
anthropomorphic nature; making something less human in form or character.
Etymologies
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Examples
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As we have already seen, this argument is, that as the progress in the purification of Theism has throughout consisted in a process of "deanthropomorphisation," therefore the terminal phase in this process, which Cosmic Theism introduces, must be still in the direction of that progress.
A Candid Examination of Theism George John Romanes 1871
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In a crucial letter to McGreevy about "the deanthropomorphisation of the artist" - his need to escape from romantic confession, aspiring to the dehumanised austerity he found in the paintings of Cézanne - Beckett concludes by apologising for his
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2009
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