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inhumane, a.|ɪnhjuːˈmeɪn|
Also 7 -aine.
[ad. L. inhūmān-us: see prec. In later use f. in-3 + humane: see note under inhuman.]
†1. = inhuman 1. Obs.
(Here are included 17th c. metrical examples which show the stress on ˈane, and 18th c. prose instances with the spelling inhumane, after inhuman had become the prevalent spelling. But these latter may possibly have been pronounced inˈhuman, and be only archaic retentions of the 17th c. spelling.)
1599Marston Sco. Villanie i. ii. 176 That rude law is torne, And disannuld, as too too inhumane, That Lords ore pesants should such seruice straine. 1617Sir W. Mure Misc. Poems xxi. 76 Broyls inhumaine devyding humane harts. 1710Hearne Collect. III. 30 He was so inhumane to Mrs. Bull..whom he married that it shorten'd her days. 1726Cavallier Mem. iii. 180 The Desolation was so great, that the most inhumane Heart would be moved thereat. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. I. iii. 231 He rejected with indignation the idea that any race of men was born to servitude, as irreligious and inhumane.
†2. Uncivilized, uncultured, impolite: cf. humane a. 2, inhumanity 2. Obs.
a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 125 There's nothing so absurd, or vain, Or barbarous, or inhumane, But if it lay the least Pretence To Piety and Godliness..Does sacred instantly commence.
3. Not humane; destitute of compassion for misery or suffering in men or animals.
1822E. Parker in Dowden Shelley II. 487 He would become as humane as he is now inhumane. 1851Longfellow in Life (1891) II. 212 He is to serve up a ‘crimped cod’—a most inhumane dish.
Hence inhuˈmanely adv., † (a) = inhumanly (obs.); (b) Not humanely, without compassion for suffering (but not with active cruelty).
1598Marston Pygmal. ii. 144 No Iew, no Turke, would vse a Christian So inhumanely as this Puritan. 1684Goodman Wint. Even. Conf. iii. (1720) 317 (T.) Whatsoever pretends to be a divine law, and can be made appear to be inhumanely rigorous..is either no law of his, or at the least is not rightly interpreted. |