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/hjˌumˌænətˈɛriən/ /jˌumˌænətˈɛriən/ Listen

adjective

Humanitarian adj.

1.

(Theol. & Ch. Hist.) Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature.

2.

(Philos.) Content with right affections and actions toward man; ethical, as distinguished from religious; believing in the perfectibility of man's nature without supernatural aid.

3.

Benevolent; philanthropic. (Recent)

noun

Humanitarian n.

1.

(Theol. & Ch. Hist.) One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human.

2.

(Philos.) One who limits the sphere of duties to human relations and affections, to the exclusion or disparagement of the religious or spiritual.

3.

One who is actively concerned in promoting the welfare of humans and human societies; a philanthropist.

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Etymology of 'Humanitarian'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government

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— Library Work with Children • Alice I. Hazeltine

... all these so-called spiritual Reformers herein studied had reached the same insight at different levels of adequacy. Their return to a more vital conception of salvation, with its emphasis on the value of personality, brought with it, too, a new humanitarian spirit and a truer estimate of the worth of man. As they re-discovered the love of God, they also found again the gospel of love and brotherhood which is woven into the very tissue of the original gospel ...

— Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries • Rufus M. Jones

... occupant of platforms to waste her precious occasion simply on so poor a task. She began by declaring that never in her life had a duty been assigned to her more consonant to her taste than that of seconding a vote of thanks to a woman so eminent, so humanitarian, and at the same time so essentially a female as the Baroness Banmann. Lady George, who knew nothing about speaking, felt at once that here was a speaker who could at any rate make herself audible ...

— Is He Popenjoy? • Anthony Trollope

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— Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers • Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

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