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Someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms
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humanitarian
Word definitions for humanitarian in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Humanitarian \Hu*man`i*ta"ri*an\, n. [From Humanity .] (Theol. & Ch. Hist.) One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human. (Philos.) One who limits the sphere of duties to human relations and affections, to the exclusion ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms [syn: do-gooder , improver ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Humanitarian is a 1999 album by Jimmy Cliff .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. concerned with people's welfare, and the alleviation of suffering; humane or compassionate. n. A person with such concerns; a philanthropist or do-gooder.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an aid/relief/humanitarian convoy (= taking food, clothes, medicine etc to people in disaster areas ) ▪ The United Nations aid convoy finally reached the border. humanitarian aid (= given to people living in very ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1794 (n.) in the theological sense "one who affirms the humanity of Christ but denies his pre-existence and divinity," from humanity + suffix from unitarian , etc.; see humanism . Meaning "philanthropist, one who advocates or practices human action to solve ...
Usage examples of humanitarian.
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Why was it, he said, that all the humanitarians, the reformers, the guilds, the ethical groups, the agnostics, the male and female knights, sustained him, and only a few of the poor and friendless knocked, by his solicitation, at the supernatural door of life?
How may we be faithful to that ideal of justice toward our inferior brethren, which underlies all humanitarian effort, and lack nothing in fidelity to Science to whose achievements we reverently look for the amelioration of the human race?
Wagner never dreamt of shareholders, tall hats, whitelead factories, and industrial and political questions looked at from the socialistic and humanitarian points of view.
A brilliant social designer and humanitarian is now solely remembered for a building that houses flightless birds.
Camps would be set up for Iraqi citizens fleeing the battle, and a logistics base for nongovernmental relief organizations would be established southwest of the city to stockpile humanitarian aid.
He had no tolerance at all for their high-minded Romantic and idealistic velleities, even though these had played a part in helping to abolish serfdom and had led to a more humanitarian attitude toward the peasantry.
It is perfectly justifiable, artistically, to lay the scene of a novel in a workhouse or a gaol, but if the humanitarian impulse leads to any embroidery of or divergence from the truth, the novel is artistically injured, because the selection and grouping of facts should be guided by artistic and not by philanthropic motives.
Humanitarian awards for Barnstorm from four different national organizations, a Congressional Citation, a successful worldwide lecture tour, the naming of a Lunar crater in his honor, a Black Hole award, and a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
His love had preserved his identity, saved him from shrinking into the mere nameless unit which the social enthusiast is in danger of becoming unless the humanitarian passion is balanced, and a little overweighed, by a merely human one.
According to the plan, the rest of the ISEG would proceed to Djibouti aboard the repainted MD-80, complete with an Aer Lingus tail number, ID markings, and a UN humanitarian relief logo.
Lo by tendering him one-half his money in government bonds, and for this great wrong the peaceable Quaker, the humanitarian Unitarian, the orthodox Congregationalist and Presbyterian, the enthusiastic Methodist and staid Baptist, felt it but right Mr.
FCO, Captain Kirk has accomplished this humanitarian deed without revealing in any way to the Talin that an extraplanetary agency was involved.
The humanitarian is carried away by a vague generality, and loses men in humanity, sacrifices the rights of men in a vain endeavor to secure the rights of man, as your Calvinist or his brother Jansenist sacrifices the rights of nature in order to secure the freedom of grace.
The humanitarian hopes of the mild Michaelis tended not towards utter destruction, but merely towards the complete economic ruin of the system.