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Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature.
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- a. Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature.
- a. Content with right affections and actions toward man; ethical, as distinguished from religious; believing in the perfectibility of man's nature without supernatural aid.
- a. Benevolent; philanthropic.
- n. One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human.
- n. One who limits the sphere of duties to human relations and affections, to the exclusion or disparagement of the religious or spiritual.
- n. One who is actively concerned in promoting the welfare of his kind; a philanthropist.
- adj. marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare
- adj. of or relating to or characteristic of humanitarianism
- n. someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms
- n. an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans
- Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, ahumanitarian view of Christ's nature.