Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who believes that Christ was a mere man; a humanitarian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who believes that Christ was a mere man.
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- noun One who believes that
Jesus Christ was a mereman .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Unitarian in religion; more accurately, I was a psilanthropist, one of those who believe our Lord to have been the real son of Joseph, and who lay the main stress on the resurrection rather than on the crucifixion.
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman
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The true language of a Christian, which reconciles humility with truth would be; -- God and not man is the judge of man: which of the two is the Christian, he will determine; but this is evident, that if the theanthropist is a Christian, the psilanthropist cannot be so; and 'vice versa'.
Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Even so, in the instance of the crucifixion, the same image is present to the theanthropist and to the psilanthropist or Socinian -- but to the latter it represents a mere man,
Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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