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(1):

(n.) One who is actively concerned in promoting the welfare of his kind; a philanthropist.

(2):

(n.) One who limits the sphere of duties to human relations and affections, to the exclusion or disparagement of the religious or spiritual.

(3):

(n.) One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human.

(4):

(a.) Content with right affections and actions toward man; ethical, as distinguished from religious; believing in the perfectibility of man's nature without supernatural aid.

(5):

(a.) Benevolent; philanthropic.

(6):

(a.) Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Humanitarian'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​h/humanitarian.html. 1828.
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