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Humanist   /hjˈumənɪst/   Listen
Humanist

noun
1.
A classical scholar or student of the liberal arts.
2.
An advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans.  Synonym: humanitarian.





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"Humanist" Quotes from Famous Books



... there! But this poem is the high-water mark of unsuccessful love exultant. Browning was too true a humanist to keep us always on so shining a peak; he knew that there are lower levels, where the wounded wings must rest—that mood, for instance, of wistful looking-back to things undreamed-of and now gone, yet ...
— Browning's Heroines • Ethel Colburn Mayne
... Peter Martyr d'Anghera wrote early accounts of Columbus, Ojeda, Cortes, and other Spanish explorers. An Italian humanist from Florence. Served as tutor in the Spanish court and had direct access to Columbus. Author of "De Orbe Novo" describing the first European ...
— The Life of Columbus • Arthur Helps


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