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Word Meanings - DEHUMANIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences.

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  • HUMANIZE
    To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph. (more info) 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
  • DIVESTITURE
    The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
  • DIVESTMENT
    The act of divesting.
  • HUMANIFY
    To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate. The humanifying of the divine Word. H. B. Wilson.
  • TENDERNESS
    The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
  • HUMANITARIANISM
    The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ.
  • HUMANISM
    1. Human nature or disposition; humanity. looked almost like a being who had rejected with indifference the attitude of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism. T. Hardy. 2. The study of the humanities; polite learning.
  • HUMANISTIC
    1. Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion. Caird. 2. Pertaining to polite kiterature. M. Arnold.
  • HUMANITY
    The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters. Note: The cultivation of the languages, literature, history, and archæology of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called literæ
  • HUMANIST
    1. 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. Schaff- Herzog. 2. One who purposes the study
  • HUMANKIND
    Mankind. Pope.
  • DIVESTURE
    Divestiture.
  • HUMANITIAN
    A humanist. B. Jonson.
  • DIVEST
    See W (more info) devestire. It is the same word as devest, but the latter is rarely 1. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest. 2. Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess;
  • HUMANIZER
    One who renders humane.
  • DEHUMANIZE
    To divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences.
  • HUMANATE
    Indued with humanity. Cranmer.
  • HUMANNESS
    The quality or state of being human.
  • HUMANICS
    The study of human nature. T. W. Collins.
  • HUMANE
    1. Pertaining to man; human. Jer. Taylor. 2. Having the feelings and inclinations creditable to man; having a disposition to treat other human beings or animals with kindness; kind; benevolent. Of an exceeding courteous and humane inclination.
  • INHUMANITY
    The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
  • INHUMANLY
    In an inhuman manner; cruelly; barbarously.
  • INHUMAN
    1. Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people. 2. Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment. Syn. --
  • TRANSHUMAN
    More than human; superhuman. Words may not tell of that transhuman change. H. F. Cary.

 

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