Humanize
['hjuːmənaɪz] or ['hjʊmə'naɪz]
Definition
(verb.) make more humane; 'The mayor tried to humanize life in the big city'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize.
(v. t.) To give a human character or expression to.
(v. t.) To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph.
(v. i.) To become or be made more humane; to become civilized; to be ameliorated.
Checker: Vernon
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Soften, make humane.[2]. Civilize, cultivate, refine, polish, improve, enlighten, educate, reclaim from barbarism.
Editor: Robert
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Civilize, ameliorate, enlighten, Christianise, refine
ANT:Barbarize, degrade, debase, depress, brutalize
Checker: Wayne
Examples
- The discovery, whatever the motive, will inevitably humanize industry a good deal. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The earth as the home of man is humanizing and unified; the earth viewed as a miscellany of facts is scattering and imaginatively inert. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Too late we learn that such ideals cannot be recalled, though the recollection of them may have a humanizing influence on other times. Plato. The Republic.
- A lively artistic tradition is essential to the humanizing of politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We are breaking all humanizing ties, and making them brute beasts; and, if they get the upper hand, such we shall find them. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Humanizing by degrees, it admitted slavery instead of death. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But Karkov had this belief in the good which could come from his own accessibility and the humanizing possibility of benevolent intervention. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They forget that material is humanized in the degree in which it connects with the common interests of men as men. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And this intimacy humanizes religious controversy and brings ecclesiasticism back to men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He humanizes a strange country; he is a friend at court; he represents the legitimate kindliness of government, standing between the poor and the impersonal, uninviting majesty of the law. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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