"pithecomorphism" meaning in All languages combined

See pithecomorphism on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Etymology: From pitheco- + -morphism. Etymology templates: {{af|en|pitheco-|-morphism}} pitheco- + -morphism Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} pithecomorphism (uncountable)
  1. (rare) The state or quality of having the form of an ape; resemblance to apes. Tags: rare, uncountable Related terms: pithecomorphic

Download JSON data for pithecomorphism meaning in All languages combined (2.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pitheco-",
        "3": "-morphism"
      },
      "expansion": "pitheco- + -morphism",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From pitheco- + -morphism.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "pithecomorphism (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with pitheco-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -morphism",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1877, Henry MacCormac, “God's Kingdom is a Kingdom of Reason”, in The Conversation of a Soul with God: a Theodicy, London: Trübner & Co., page 108",
          "text": "Some are dissatisfied, call it anthropomorphism, when we venture to compare man with God. After all, men are not apes or ape-like, pithecomorphism is but an insensate dream. Without or doubt or question, man, I affirm, assert, and declare, is not an ape or ape-like.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Bénédicte de Villers, “Paleoanthropology from a Phenomenological Point of View. Some Remarks about the Genetic Structures of Human Life”, in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, editor, Life Energies, Forces and the Shaping of Life: Vital, Existential: Vital, Existential (Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research; 74), book I, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →DOI, page 74",
          "text": "Indeed, Leroi-Gourhan's objective, as I have said, was not to find hypothetical transitions between pithecomorphism and anthropomorphism but to spot an evolutive divergence towards a totally original way of being, that of man.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Chris Herzfeld, “Skeletons, Skins, and Skulls: Apes in the Age of Colonial Expansion and Natural History Collections”, in Kevin Frey, transl., The Great Apes: A Short History, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, page 50",
          "text": "[…] Cuvier and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire had already “refuted,” in 1817 and again in 1824, a black origin for the Egyptian civilization, […]. They evoked the “pithecomorphism,” or resemblance to apes, of the “black race,” and said moreover that the skulls of Egyptian mummies were similar to those of Europeans.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The state or quality of having the form of an ape; resemblance to apes."
      ],
      "id": "en-pithecomorphism-en-noun-hj4TlLh9",
      "links": [
        [
          "form",
          "form"
        ],
        [
          "ape",
          "ape"
        ],
        [
          "resemblance",
          "resemblance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) The state or quality of having the form of an ape; resemblance to apes."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "pithecomorphic"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pithecomorphism"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pitheco-",
        "3": "-morphism"
      },
      "expansion": "pitheco- + -morphism",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From pitheco- + -morphism.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "pithecomorphism (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "pithecomorphic"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with pitheco-",
        "English terms suffixed with -morphism",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1877, Henry MacCormac, “God's Kingdom is a Kingdom of Reason”, in The Conversation of a Soul with God: a Theodicy, London: Trübner & Co., page 108",
          "text": "Some are dissatisfied, call it anthropomorphism, when we venture to compare man with God. After all, men are not apes or ape-like, pithecomorphism is but an insensate dream. Without or doubt or question, man, I affirm, assert, and declare, is not an ape or ape-like.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Bénédicte de Villers, “Paleoanthropology from a Phenomenological Point of View. Some Remarks about the Genetic Structures of Human Life”, in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, editor, Life Energies, Forces and the Shaping of Life: Vital, Existential: Vital, Existential (Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research; 74), book I, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →DOI, page 74",
          "text": "Indeed, Leroi-Gourhan's objective, as I have said, was not to find hypothetical transitions between pithecomorphism and anthropomorphism but to spot an evolutive divergence towards a totally original way of being, that of man.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Chris Herzfeld, “Skeletons, Skins, and Skulls: Apes in the Age of Colonial Expansion and Natural History Collections”, in Kevin Frey, transl., The Great Apes: A Short History, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, page 50",
          "text": "[…] Cuvier and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire had already “refuted,” in 1817 and again in 1824, a black origin for the Egyptian civilization, […]. They evoked the “pithecomorphism,” or resemblance to apes, of the “black race,” and said moreover that the skulls of Egyptian mummies were similar to those of Europeans.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The state or quality of having the form of an ape; resemblance to apes."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "form",
          "form"
        ],
        [
          "ape",
          "ape"
        ],
        [
          "resemblance",
          "resemblance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) The state or quality of having the form of an ape; resemblance to apes."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pithecomorphism"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-31 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (91e95e7 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.