- (a.) Benevolent; philanthropic.
- (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.
- (n.) One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human.
- (n.) One who is actively concerned in promoting the welfare of his kind; a philanthropist.
- (n.) One who limits the sphere of duties to human relations and affections, to the exclusion or disparagement of the religious or spiritual.
- (a.) Pertaining to humanitarians or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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| Chicago | Webster's. 2011. "humanitarian" http://smartdefine.org/humanitarian/definitions/2017700 (accessed September 21, 2026). |
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| MLA | Webster's. "humanitarian" 27 May 2011. Web. 21 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/humanitarian/definitions/2017700> |