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Humanist

adjective

Of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism. Synonym: humanistic.

Of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion. Synonym: humanistic.

Pertaining to or concerned with the humanities. Synonyms: humane, humanistic. "A humane education"

Marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare. Synonyms: human-centered, human-centred, humanistic, humanitarian. "Released the prisoner for humanitarian reasons" , "Respect and humanistic regard for all members of our species"

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"Humanist" Quotes from Famous Books

... the database was also a hard-fought issue: Did the database need to be encoded? Were there normative structures for encoding humanist texts? Should it be SGML? What about the TEI—will it last, will it prove useful? CALALUCA expressed some minor doubts as to whether a data bank can be fully TEI-conformant. Every effort can be made, ...

— LOC WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC TEXTS • James Daly

... it was influenced by the Italian Renaissance, it is certainly a mistake to reckon the Humanist movement in Germany, as Geiger does,[1] as a 'merely imported culture, entirely lacking independence.' The germ of this great movement towards mental freedom was contained in the general trend of the time, which was striving to free itself from the ...

— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese

Words linked to "Humanist" : proponent, classical scholar, man of letters, scholarly person, exponent, humanism, philologue, student, Erasmus, Geert Geerts, Desiderius Erasmus, scholar, advocator, philologist, humanities, Gerhard Gerhards, advocate, classicist, bookman