humanitarian

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Relating to people's welfare.

   “So far as the followers of Jesus have woven the humanitarian teachings of their master into the living fibre of their own daily lives, the Christian religion has been a blessing and a civilizer.”

2. sıfat Being compassionate or humane.

   “[T]his most painful condition [a fractured arm], [...] was brought about through the humanitarian act of saving, and restoring to life, the angelic form of a creature whose very existence was a gigantic balm of Gilead to the lacerated body of our hero, [...]”

3. sıfat Of or pertaining to the belief that Jesus Christ is fully human and not divine.

   “I might further object that ſome Humanitarians would tell you that the doctrine of the atonement is perfectly compatible with the ſimple humanity of Chriſt, ſo that to every perſon of the Humanitarian perſuaſion the former tenet does not appear "mockery and deluſion."”

4. sıfat Synonym of humanist (“relating to humanism”).
5. isim A person concerned with people's welfare; a do-gooder or philanthropist.

   “Mr. [Gilbert] Haven has never forgotten this sacred duty. While our humanitarians have inquired into the natural rights of man, the spirit of modern civilization and the Constitution, he, without despising such inquiries, has sought wisdom and direction at the Cross.”

6. isim One who believes that Jesus Christ is fully human and not divine.

   “But it will be demanded, how happened it that Irenæus, the pupil of that Polycarp who is repreſented to have been a Humanitarian, ſhould become a zealous advocate for the Deity of Chriſt?”

7. isim Synonym of humanist (“a person who believes in the philosophy of humanism”).