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humanitarian
- 4 dictionary resultshu⋅man⋅i⋅tar⋅i⋅an
[hyoo-man-i-tair-ee-uh
n or, often, yoo-] 
–adjective
| 1. | having concern for or helping to improve the welfare and happiness of people. |
| 2. | of or pertaining to ethical or theological humanitarianism. |
| 3. | pertaining to the saving of human lives or to the alleviation of suffering: a humanitarian crisis. |
–noun
| 4. | a person actively engaged in promoting human welfare and social reforms, as a philanthropist. |
| 5. | a person who professes ethical or theological humanitarianism. |
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| hu·man·i·tar·i·an (hyōō-mān'ĭ-târ'ē-ən) n. One who is devoted to the promotion of human welfare and the advancement of social reforms; a philanthropist. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a humanitarian or humanitarianism. See Synonyms at humane. |
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Humanitarian
Hu*man`i*ta"ri*an\, a. 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]Humanitarian
Hu*man`i*ta"ri*an\, n. [From Humanity.]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 his kind; a philanthropist. [Recent]
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