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.
One who pursues the study of the humanities, or polite literature.
One versed in knowledge of human nature.
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.
Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ’s nature.
Content with right affections and actions toward man; ethical, as distinguished from religious; believing in the perfectibility of man’s nature without supernatural aid.
Benevolent; philanthropic.
One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human.
One who limits the sphere of duties to human relations and affections, to the exclusion or disparagement of the religious or spiritual.
One who is actively concerned in promoting the welfare of humans and human societies; a philanthropist.