Philanthropist
[fɪ'lænθrəpɪst]
Definition
(noun.) someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being.
Edited by Elvis--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who practices philanthropy; one who loves mankind, and seeks to promote the good of others.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
One who returns to the people publicly a small percentage of the wealth he steals from them privately.
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Examples
- I know not whether I am a true philanthropist; yet I am willing to aid you to the utmost of my power in a purpose so honest. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Bates, Manager of the Baltimore & Ohio telegraph for Robert Garrett; and Andrew Carnegie, the greatest ironmaster the world has ever known, as well as its greatest philanthropist. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You would, perhaps, think me rude if I inquired in return whether you are a philanthropist? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I am told he is an eminent philanthropist--which is decidedly against him, to begin with. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Adrian despised the narrow views of the politician, and Raymond held in supreme contempt the benevolent visions of the philanthropist. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Only the philanthropist's father and mother--Mr. and Mrs. Ablewhite. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It left that to operate in darkness--then opinion rose in an empty fury, made an outlaw of one and a platitudinous philanthropist of the other. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A pretty thing, indeed, to marry a philanthropist. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- So this old philanthropist used to make her equal run of her errands, execute her millinery, and read her to sleep with French novels, every night. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I do suppose this was the most accomplished philanthropist (on a small independence) that England ever produced. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I believe he is a sort of philanthropist, so Brooke is sure to take him up. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This, too, when Mr. Quale, one of the first philanthropists of our time, has mentioned to me that he was really disposed to be interested in her! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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