Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be âsatanic.â However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
HUMANITY
world, human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man
(noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth; âall the world loves a loverâ; âshe always used âhumankindâ because âmankindâ seemed to slight the womenâ
humanness, humanity, manhood
(noun) the quality of being human; âhe feared the speedy decline of all manhoodâ
humanity
(noun) the quality of being humane
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
humanity (countable and uncountable, plural humanities)
Mankind; human beings as a group.
Synonym: Thesaurus:humankind
The human condition or nature.
The quality of being benevolent; humane traits of character; humane qualities or aspects.
Synonym: humaneness
Any academic subject belonging to the humanities.
Source: Wiktionary
Hu*man"i*ty, n.; pl. Humanities. Etym: [L. humanitas: cf. F. humanité. See Human.]
1. The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings.
2. Mankind collectively; the human race. But hearing oftentimes The still, and music humanity. Wordsworth. It is a debt we owe to humanity. S. S. Smith.
3. The quality of being humane; the kind feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness. "The common offices of humanity and friendship." Locke.
4. Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature. Polished with humanity and the study of witty science. Holland.
5. pl. (With definite article)
Definition: 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 archĂŠology of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called literĂŠ humaniores, or, in English, the humanities, . . . by way of opposition to the literĂŠ divinĂŠ, or divinity. G. P. Marsh.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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