HUMANIZING

Verb

humanizing

present participle of humanize

Source: Wiktionary


HUMANIZE

Hu"man*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humanized; p. pr. & vb. n. Humanizing.] Etym: [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.)

Definition: To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph.

Hu"man*ize, v. i.

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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