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Ambit vs Apanthropinisation - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between ambit and apanthropinisation

is that ambit is the sphere or area of control and influence of something while apanthropinisation is the broadening of the ambit of one’s preoccupations and concerns away from a narrow focus on those things most palpably human and most closely pertinent to humanity.

ambit

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The sphere or area of control and influence of something.
  • * 1913 , , The Judgment House , ch. 34,
    • He had invited Destiny to sweep him up in her reaping, by placing himself in the ambit of her scythe.
  • A circuit, or a boundary around a property.
  • A span of actions, thoughts, or words.

    • Derived terms

    * ambit claim

    Anagrams

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    apanthropinisation

    English

    Alternative forms

    * apanthropinization

    Noun

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  • (rare) The broadening of the ambit of one’s preoccupations and concerns away from a narrow focus on those things most palpably human and most closely pertinent to humanity.“apanthropinization” listed on pages 50–51 of Joseph Twadell Shipley’s Dictionary of Early English (1955 ; Philosophical Library)
  • * 1880, Oct.: , Mind'', volume 5 (? 20), page 451] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=F_0EAAAAQAAJ&q=apanthropinisation&dq=apanthropinisation&ei=_c1WSdnaDKTmyAT-67mlCQ&pgis=1 ?] (Williams and Norgate) · (also quoted, with scant little alteration, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3pINAAAAQAAJ&q=apanthropinisation&dq=apanthropinisation&ei=_c1WSdnaDKTmyAT-67mlCQ&pgis=1 on page 292] of ''The Academy [? 18, 1880)
    • In short, the primitive human conception of beauty must, I believe, have been purely anthropinistic'' — must have gathered mainly around the personality of man or woman; and 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 which remains to the very last its natural centre.
  • * 1881, Jan.: '', volume 18 (1880–1881), page 344] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aaMVAAAAYAAJ&dq=apanthropinization&ei=HdVWScTmHqKIyASJ8aiDBw ?] (D. Appleton); quoting ''verbatim'', but not ''literatim'', the text of the first occurrence in ''Mind [1880] [[#Quotations, hereinbefore] (minor adjustments to Americanise the spelling have been made)
    • In short, the primitive human conception of beauty must, I believe, have been purely anthropinistic'' — must have gathered mainly around the personality of man or woman; and all its subsequent history must be that of an ''apanthropinization (I apologize for the ugly but convenient word), a gradual regression or concentric widening of æsthetic feeling around this fixed point which remains to the very last its natural center.
  • * 2005, Mar.: Anne-Julia Zwierlein (editor), Unmapped Countries: Biological Visions in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture , page 114] ([http://www.anthempress.com/product_info.php?&products_id=143&osCsid= Anthem Press; ISBN 1843311607, 978?1843311607)
    • From this early, ‘anthropinistic’ stage, at which all aesthetic feeling is ‘gathered mainly around the personality of man or woman’, human aesthetic feeling gradually evolves in a process of apanthropinization , ‘a gradual regression or concentric widening of aesthetic feeling around this fixed point’,59 and advances to the appreciation of beauty in nature.60

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