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humanist

ˈhjumənɪst
WordNet
Franciscus Junius the Younger, a humanist scholar and antiquarian. Two putti hold the portrait upright. On the ground in front of the portrait, the fame trumpet and symbols for painting and sculpture. The print has a French poem about research as its caption.
Franciscus Junius the Younger, a humanist scholar and antiquarian. Two putti hold the portrait upright. On the ground in front of the portrait, the fame trumpet and symbols for painting and sculpture. The print has a French poem about research as its caption.
  1. (adj) humanist
    marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare "a humane physician","released the prisoner for humanitarian reasons","respect and humanistic regard for all members of our species"
  2. (adj) humanist
    pertaining to or concerned with the humanities "humanistic studies","a humane education"
  3. (adj) humanist
    of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism "the humanistic revival of learning"
  4. (adj) humanist
    of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion "the humanist belief in continuous emergent evolution"- Wendell Thomas"
  5. (n) humanist
    a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts
  6. (n) humanist
    an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans
Illustrations
Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus, the Rotterdam humanist. Bust to the right. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a series of famous European scholars.
Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus, the Rotterdam humanist. Bust to the right. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a series of famous European scholars.
Portrait bust to the right of the Rotterdam humanist Desiderius Erasmus, wearing a beret and wearing a fur-trimmed cloak. Around an arch-shaped frame, under the portrait an eight-line Dutch verse.
Portrait bust to the right of the Rotterdam humanist Desiderius Erasmus, wearing a beret and wearing a fur-trimmed cloak. Around an arch-shaped frame, under the portrait an eight-line Dutch verse.
Portrait in an oval frame of the humanist and scholar Justus Lipsius. Bust to the right. On both sides of the portrait the personifications Virtue (Virtus) and Leer (Doctrina). Above the portrait the personifications Glory (Gloria) and Glory (Fama). Below the portrait is the personification Modesta (Modesta), who tramples Nijd (Invidia). The print has a Latin caption.
Portrait in an oval frame of the humanist and scholar Justus Lipsius. Bust to the right. On both sides of the portrait the personifications Virtue (Virtus) and Leer (Doctrina). Above the portrait the personifications Glory (Gloria) and Glory (Fama). Below the portrait is the personification Modesta (Modesta), who tramples Nijd (Invidia). The print has a Latin caption.
Portrait of the humanist Gerardus Joannes Vossius. Below the portrait a poem in Dutch.
Portrait of the humanist Gerardus Joannes Vossius. Below the portrait a poem in Dutch.
Portrait of Paolo Manuzio, Italian humanist and publisher. In profile to the left. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a series of famous scholars
Portrait of Paolo Manuzio, Italian humanist and publisher. In profile to the left. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a series of famous scholars
Portrait of Cornelis Grapheus, city secretary of Antwerp and humanist. Bust to the left. Numbered C4. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a series of famous European scholars.
Portrait of Cornelis Grapheus, city secretary of Antwerp and humanist. Bust to the left. Numbered C4. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a series of famous European scholars.
Portrait bust in oval to the left of the humanist Georgius Cassander, with skull cap. The portrait rests on a pedestal with a six-line Dutch verse in two columns.
Portrait bust in oval to the left of the humanist Georgius Cassander, with skull cap. The portrait rests on a pedestal with a six-line Dutch verse in two columns.
Portrait of Carolus Scribani, an Antwerp humanist, schoolteacher and Jesuit. Bust to the left. Scribani stands next to a desk with a crucifix and holds a book in each hand. The print has a Latin caption
Portrait of Carolus Scribani, an Antwerp humanist, schoolteacher and Jesuit. Bust to the left. Scribani stands next to a desk with a crucifix and holds a book in each hand. The print has a Latin caption
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Humanist
    A person with a strong concern for human welfare, especially one who emphasizes the dignity and worth of individual people, rejecting claims of supernatural influences on humans, and stressing the need for people to achieve improvement of society and self-fulfillment through reason and to develop human-oriented ethical values without theism; an adherent of humanism.
  2. Humanist
    One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title.
  3. Humanist
    One versed in knowledge of human nature.
  4. Humanist
    One who pursues the study of the humanities, or polite literature.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) humanist
    One accomplished in literary and classical culture; especially, in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, one of the scholars who, following the impulse of Petrarch, pursued and disseminated the study and a truer understanding of classical, and particularly of Greek, literature. The active enthusiasm of the humanists was the chief factor in accomplishing the Renaissance.
  2. (n) humanist
    A student of human nature, or of matters of human interest; one versed in human affairs and relations.
  3. humanist
    Humanistic.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Humanist
    hū′man-ist a student of polite literature: at the Renaissance, a student of Greek and Roman literature: a student of human nature
Quotations
Walter Lippmann
When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
Walter Lippmann
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. F. humaniste,

Usage in the news

Reclaiming ' Humanistic ' Sex Therapy. psychologytoday.com

With Humanist minister DT Strain. blog.chron.com

I have recently been interviewed by Humanistic Paganism: A Naturalistic Marriage of Science and Mythology, a website for pagans with a naturalist worldview. blog.chron.com

Compton-bred humanist Kendrick Lamar, killer of beats. spin.com

Nominated for this year's Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar, this surprising, humanist Canadian film about an Algerian immigrant seeking solace for his young students and himself is a winner. filmjournal.com

Rachel Carson , the poet-warrior of the environmental movement, did a heroic kind of humanist advocacy science that's easy for artists to love. tnr.com

Secular humanists are committed to realizing the best that we are capable of as human beings. nvdaily.com

He is president of the Washington-based American Humanist Association. psychologytoday.com

Krohn, the corporate technical officer, says if OkCupid has become a popular space for atheists and a beacon of humanist values, it's a happy by-product. ashingtonpost.com

"I am finally free," said Murad about being a former Nun and becoming an Atheistic Humanist. tcpalm.com

Humanists lose Richmond Catholic school fight. bbc.com

Humanists Challenge Congressional Prayer Caucus. psychologytoday.com

Indiana Jones and the Perils of Humanistic Decency. villagevoice.com

International Humanist and Ethical Union (Max Fisher/Washington Post). ashingtonpost.com

Since humanists do not believe in an afterlife, we don't have the easy comfort of imagining that we'll be with our loved one s again some day. redding.com

Usage in scientific papers

In traditional computer vision, a good scene description is of interest for qualitative, humanistic reasons.
Compression Rate Method for Empirical Science and Application to Computer Vision

The point here was that a scene description is valuable for quantitative, mechanistic reasons (it allows compression) instead of the qualitative, humanistic reasons.
Compression Rate Method for Empirical Science and Application to Computer Vision

The gap between the naturalistic or empirical sociology and the sociophysics is perhaps smaller than the one between the naturalistic and the hermeneutic or humanistic social science. A tolerant sociologist can treat the sociophysics as a part of the mathematical sociology.
Around the gap between sociophysics and sociology

Usage in literature

I describe myself as a 'Humanist. "The Sequel" by George A. Taylor

But this terrible king 'struck down the noblest of the Humanists, Thomas More, who died the death of a saint, gloriously jesting. "Gilbert Keith Chesterton" by Patrick Braybrooke

The Renaissance and the humanistic movement also reveal Jewish influences at work. "Jewish Literature and Other Essays" by Gustav Karpeles

It is in this, the so-called humanistic phase of the Renaissance, that the student of education is chiefly interested. "History of Education" by Levi Seeley

However this may be, there is no doubt that Des Periers was a remarkable example of a humanist. "A Short History of French Literature" by George Saintsbury

The teaching of the earlier philosophers was exclusively cosmological, that of the Sophists exclusively humanistic. "A Critical History of Greek Philosophy" by W. T. Stace

For the Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini see POGGIO. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3" by Various

Hegel was not a romanticist, but a classic; not a naturalist, but a humanist. "History of Modern Philosophy" by Alfred William Benn

Bergk (Theodor), German humanist, son of the above, b. Leipsic, 22 May, 1812, author of a good History of Greek Literature, 1872. "A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations" by Joseph Mazzini Wheeler

Hendrick Laurenssen Spieghel (1549-1612) was a humanist of a type more advanced and less polemical than Coornhert. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8" by Various