anthropomorphous

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But affliction makes opposing forces loom anthropomorphous; and those ideas were now exchanged for a sense of Jude and herself fleeing from a persecutor.

From Jude the Obscure by Hardy, Thomas

Therefore weeping probably came on rather late in the line of our descent; and this conclusion agrees with the fact that our nearest allies, the anthropomorphous apes, do not weep.

From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Darwin, Charles

The ourang-outang is the most anthropomorphous of the ape tribe, all of which are strictly frugivorous.

From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile.

From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose

Linked through the ages, one and all, In long anthropomorphous chain, The human and the animal Inseparably must remain.

From One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue by Cawein, Julius Madison