HUMANITY
\hjuːmˈanɪti], \hjuːmˈanɪti], \h_j_uː_m_ˈa_n_ɪ_t_i]\
Definitions of HUMANITY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
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Mankind collectively; the human race.
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The quality of being humane; the kind feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness.
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Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature.
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The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters.
By Oddity Software
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Mankind collectively; the human race.
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The quality of being humane; the kind feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness.
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Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature.
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The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters.
By Noah Webster.
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The nature peculiar to a human being: the kind feelings of man: benevolence: tenderness: mankind collectively:-pl. HUMANITIES, in Scotland, grammar, rhetoric, Latin, Greek, and poetry, so called from their humanizing effects: the preparatory course in Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries and some other institutions of learning.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. Quality of being human; the nature of man;—the human race; mankind collectively;—the quality of being humane; kindness; benevolence;—mental cultivation; liberal education;—in Scotland, grammatical study of Latin;—pl. The branches of polite or elegant learning; belles-lettres.
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The nature of man; humankind, the collective body of mankind; kindness, tenderness; philology, grammatical studies.
By Thomas Sheridan
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