About The Word Humanize
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Humanize
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What's The Definition Of Humanize?
[v] make more humane; "The mayor tried to humanize life in the big city"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Humanize: humanise Related Terms | Find terms related to Humanize: Humanize In Webster's Dictionary \Hu"man*ize\, v. i.
To become or be made more humane; to become civilized; to be
ameliorated.
By the original law of nations, war and extirpation
were the punishment of injury. Humanizing by degrees,
it admitted slavery instead of death; a further step
was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery.
--Franklin.
\Hu"man*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Humanized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Humanizing}.] [Cf. F. humaniser.] 1. To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compassion? --Addison. 2. To give a human character or expression to. ``Humanized divinities.'' --Caird. 3. (Med.) To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph. |
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