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Humaneness

noun
1.
The quality of compassion or consideration for others (people or animals).






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"Humaneness" Quotes from Famous Books



... I believe has never as yet been published, redounds to his immortal fame as a man of fortitude and humaneness. ...
— Great Testimony - against scientific cruelty • Stephen Coleridge

... thousand families. Meanwhile we give not three hundred and fifty a day, but only ten, and say that that is relief, charity, that that makes your wife and all of us exceptionally good people and hurrah for our humaneness. That is it, my dear soul! Ah! if we would talk less of being humane and calculated more, reasoned, and took a conscientious attitude to our duties! How many such humane, sensitive people there are among us who tear about in all good faith with subscription lists, but don't pay their tailors ...
— The Wife and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

... the prevalence of democracy alone can end aggression among nations, secure the rights of small peoples, foster justice and humaneness in man—let the history of this last century and a half be well examined, and let the human probabilities be weighed. Which is the more likely to advocate wars of aggression? They, who by age, position, wealth, are secure against the ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 • Various

... crusade on behalf of mere mercy and justice; they now approved the practical philanthropist who had taken away a great reproach from his nation, and glorified the age in which they lived because of its special humaneness, while they exulted not less in the brightening prospects of the country. Sedition overcome, law and order triumphant, the throne standing firm, prosperity returning—all ministered ...
— Great Britain and Her Queen • Anne E. Keeling

... was killed. His loss was greatly lamented by his comrades. He always fought at the head of his men, with the most reckless self-exposure, and for outpost duty and the skirmish line he left scarcely an equal behind him in either army. His humaneness to our men who had fallen into his hands caused many of them to shed tears at the intelligence of his death. Men of valor and kindness are always worthy of a better cause than that in which the Rebels are engaged; but their merit is ...
— Three Years in the Federal Cavalry • Willard Glazier



Words linked to "Humaneness" :   humanity, mercy, humane, animal, inhumaneness, brute, inhumane, creature, fauna, mercifulness, quality, beast, animate being



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