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humane Adjective 1. showing kindness and sympathy 2. inflicting as little pain as possible: a humane method of killing minke whales 3. considered to have a civilizing effect on people: the humane tradition of a literary education [variant of human]
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humane adjective kind, compassionate, good, kindly, understanding, gentle, forgiving, tender, mild, sympathetic, charitable, benign, clement, benevolent, lenient, merciful, good-natured, forbearing, kind-hearted << OPPOSITE cruel Translations |
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| SEVENTY-FIVE Men presented themselves before the President of the Humane Society and demanded the great gold medal for life-saving. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite. He was a fairly humane man toward slaves and other animals; he was an exceedingly humane man toward the erring of his own race. |
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