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philanthropist|fɪˈlænθrəpɪst|
[f. philanthropy + -ist.]
One who practises philanthropy; one who from love of his fellow-men exerts himself for their well-being. Formerly, with the more general sense of ‘friend or lover of man’, and so applied to the Deity, and also to friendly animals.
1730–6Bailey (folio), Philanthropist,..a lover of mankind. 1742Young Nt. Th. iv. 602 Thou great Philanthropist! Father of Angels! but the Friend of Man! 1769Pennant Zool. III. 49 The Dolphin..was celebrated in the earliest time for its fondness of the human race, was honored with the title of the Sacred Fish, and distinguished by those of Boy-loving and Philanthropist. 1797Anti-Jacobin 11 Dec. (1852) 19 Tom Paine the philanthropist. 1804Med. Jrnl. XII. 209 The man of letters, philosopher, and philanthropist. 1829I. Taylor Enthus. vii. 178 The spirit that should actuate a Christian philanthropist. 1875Helps Soc. Press. iii. 44 A great philanthropist has astonished the world by giving it large sums of money during his lifetime.
Hence philanthroˈpistic a. rare, pertaining to or characteristic of a philanthropist; of the nature of philanthropism.
1851Carlyle Sterling i. v, Mere darkness with philanthropistic phosphorescences, empty meteoric lights. |