anthropomorphistn.

1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (x. 18) ii. 458 They therefore who..infer, that God cannot see sin in justified persons, come too neer to the heresie of Anthropomorphists.

1757 tr. J. G. Keysler Trav. through Germany II. l. 162 If, like the pagans, some Anthropomorphists must needs have a visible image of their incomprehensible Creator, a countenance which strikes the mind with reverence and awe seems to me more proper.

1834 Penny Cycl. II. 98 The Greeks were essentially anthropomorphists.

1878 R. W. Emerson in N. Amer. Rev. May 414 What anthropomorphists we are..that we cannot let moral distinctions be, but must mould them into human shape.

1966 B. Brophy Don't never Forget 16 The reader will have guessed in some detail by now what sort of person he confronts in me:..a twee anthropomorphist, who attributes human feelings..to animals, and yet actually prefers animals to humans.

2007 Canberra Times (Nexis) 10 Mar. Anthropomorphists may be comforted to read that birds and animals are susceptible to various forms of sexually transmitted disease, drink and drugs, divorce and murder.