3. Humanizing; exalting; tending to refine.

Syn. -- Kind; sympathizing; benevolent; mild; compassionate; gentle;

tender; merciful.

-- Hu*mane"ly, adv. -- Hu*mane"ness, n.

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Hu*man"ics (?), n. The study of human nature. [R.] T. W. Collins.

Hu*man"i*fy (?), v. t. To make human; to invest with a human

personality; to incarnate. [R.]

The humanifying of the divine Word.

H. B. Wilson.

Hu"man*ism (?), n. 1. Human nature or disposition; humanity.

[She] looked almost like a being who had rejected with indifference

the attitude of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism.

T. Hardy.

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