单词 | humane letters |
释义 | > as lemmashumane letters humane letters n. [after French lettres humaines (16th cent. in Middle French as letres humaines ) and its model post-classical Latin litterae humaniores literae humaniores n.] = the humanities at humanity n. 2. ΚΠ 1610 E. Bolton Elements of Armories sig. A3 Generous, and learned Reader (for to such onely doth this part of humane letters [sc. Heraldry] appertaine). 1746 J. Upton Crit. Observ. Shakespeare i. iv. 28 The more liberal sciences and humane letters, are not the natural growth of these Gothic and northern regions. 1793 Beawes's Civil Hist. Spain & Portugal I. 367 Paulus Manucius (the Person so distinguished in the Study and Knowledge of humane Letters) said of himself, that, compared with others, he was something in Literature, but nothing in Comparison with Antonius Augustinus. 1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons II. iv. v. 66 Thou art acquainted, doubtless..with the Humaner Letters? 1891 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 1 395 Literary prejudices which caused classical models to be regarded as the only humane letters. 1905 Eng. Hist. Rev. 20 341 To most of Dr. Sandys's readers it will be news how long humane letters held their own at Orleans and Poitiers. 1981 J. Cheever Jrnls. (1991) 371 The faculty and student body have enthusiastically chosen me to receive an honorary doctorate in humane letters. 2003 Jrnl. Mil. Hist. 67 895 Oppenheimer..comfortably dwelled in the intertwined American and international worlds of physics and humane letters. < as lemmas |
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