rare–1. [n. of action f. assumed vb. apanthropinize: see AP- pref.2 and ANTHROPINISM.] Withdrawal from preoccupation with what relates to man.
1880. G. Allen, in Mind, V. 451. The primitive human conception of beauty must, I believe, have been purely anthropinistic—… all its subsequent history must be that of an apanthropinisation (I apologise for the ugly but convenient word), a gradual regression or concentric widening of æsthetic feeling around this fixed point [man].
