a. (sb.) [f. THEOPATHY, after pathetic.] Of, pertaining to, or characterized by theopathy: see quots.

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1748.  Hartley, Observ. Man, II. iii. § 7. 316. To deduce practical Rules concerning the Theopathetic Affections, Faith, Fear, Gratitude, Hope, Trust, Resignation, and Love.

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1830.  W. Taylor, Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry, II. 5. All these publications … tend to assuade a benevolent sensibility, theopathetic affections, and evangelical doctrines.

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1856.  R. A. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), I. I. v. 27. There are three kinds of mysticism, theopathetic, theosophic, theurgic. Ibid., 31. The mystic of the theopathetic species is content to contemplate, to feel, or to act, suffering under Deity, in his sublime passivity.

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1878.  Dowden, Stud. Lit., 197. Studying the phenomena of morbid theopathetic emotion.

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  b.  sb. (See quot.)

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1860.  Gardner, Faiths World, II. 899/2. Theopathetics, those mystics who have resigned themselves more or less passively to an imagined divine manifestation.

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