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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human.

2. 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]

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature.

2. 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]

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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