What does "humanitarian" mean?
Humanitarian: (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.
Additional senses
- 2.Benevolent; philanthropic. [Recent]
- 3.(Theol. & Ch. Hist.) One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human.
- 4.(Philos.) One who limits the sphere of duties to human relations and affections, to the exclusion or disparagement of the religious or spiritual.
- 5.One who is actively concerned in promoting the welfare of his kind; a philanthropist. [Recent]
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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