But hearing oftentimes The still, and music humanity.
Wordsworth.
It is a debt we owe to humanity.
S. S. Smith.
3. The quality of being humane; the kind feelings, dispositions, and
sympathies of man; especially, a disposition to relieve persons or
animals in distress, and to treat all creatures with kindness and
tenderness. "The common offices of humanity and friendship." Locke.
4. Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and
polite literature.
Polished with humanity and the study of witty science.
Holland.
5. pl. (With definite article) The branches of polite or elegant
learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics;
belles-letters.
The cultivation of the languages, literature, history, and archÊology
of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called literÊ humaniores, or, in
English, the humanities, . . . by way of opposition to the literÊ
divinÊ, or divinity. G. P. Marsh.
Hu*man`i*za"tion (?), n. The act of humanizing. M. Arnold.
Hu"man*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humanized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Humanizing (?).] [Cf. F. humaniser.] 1. To render human or humane; to
soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude
habits; to refine or civilize.
Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with
compassion?
Addison.
2. To give a human character or expression to. "Humanized divinities."
Caird.
3. (Med.) To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to
humanize vaccine lymph.
Hu"man*ize, v. i. To become or be made more humane; to become
civilized; to be ameliorated.
By the original law of nations, war and extirpation were the
punishment of injury. Humanizing by degrees, it admitted slavery
instead of death; a further step was the exchange of prisoners
instead of slavery.
Franklin.
Hu"man*i`zer (?), n. One who renders humane.
Hu"man*kind` (?), n. Mankind. Pope.
Hu"man*ly, adv. 1. In a human manner; after the manner of men;
according to the knowledge or wisdom of men; as, the present prospects,
humanly speaking, promise a happy issue. Sir W. Raleigh.