Humanitarian

Definition:

  • (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.

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charity vs. humanitarian

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altruist vs. humanitarian

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compassionate vs. humanitarian

humanitarian vs. suffering

alleviation vs. humanitarian

humanitarian vs. welfare

humanitarian vs. philanthropic

humane vs. humanitarian

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humanitarian vs. humanity

human vs. humanitarian