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adjective

Humane adj.

Pertaining to man; human. (Obs.)

Having the feelings and inclinations creditable to man; having a disposition to treat other human beings or animals with kindness; kind; benevolent. "Of an exceeding courteous and humane inclination."

Humanizing; exalting; tending to refine.

Synonyms: Kind; sympathizing; benevolent; mild; compassionate; gentle; tender; merciful.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... easier to commit than to justify fratricide." But so capricious was Caracalla that he soon afterwards executed the accomplices of his unnatural deed, and caused his murdered brother to be placed among the gods, and divine honours to be paid to him. It was in this more humane mood that the tomb whose ruins we see on the Appian Way was ordered to be built. The tomb on the right-hand side of the road is a most incongruous structure as it appears at present, having a circular medieval tower on the top of it, and a common osteria or wine-shop ...

— Roman Mosaics - Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood • Hugh Macmillan

... much beloved; he was less haughty and more humane than his father, and was said to be ...

— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... after the fashion of Napoleon; nor would he have dealt with any people as the Duke of Cumberland dealt with the clansmen after Culloden. Such performances would have seemed to him wanton as well as cruel, and he was too wise and too humane a man to be either. Indian atrocities, for instance, with which he was familiar, never led him to retaliate in kind. But he was perfectly prepared to exact the extremest penalty by just and recognized methods; and had it not been for the urgent entreaties of ...

— George Washington, Vol. II • Henry Cabot Lodge

... child of a man of large property, who, at the age of eighteen, left her independent mistress of an unincumbered income of seven hundred a year; she was a girl of a lively disposition, and humane, susceptible heart: she resided in New-York with an uncle, who loved her too well, and had too high an opinion of her prudence, to scrutinize her actions so much as would have been necessary with many young ladies, who were not blest with ...

— Charlotte Temple • Susanna Rowson

... of the great maelstrom of war, can cultivate humane sentiments and abolish the barbarism of dueling, which still holds its ground in France and Germany in the highest ranks ...

— Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 - Volume 1, Number 7 • Various

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