humanitaryadj.

1844 J. Lhotsky Regeneration of Society (subtitle) An appeal to the English Nation in the cause of humanitary reform, religious and political.

1847 Harbinger 28 Aug. 190/2 Although not belonging to what are very unjustly called the higher classes, I discovered more true refinement, that which is based upon humanitary feeling, than is generally found among those of greater pretensions.

1856 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Aug. 180/1 The true historian..estimating..events, not by the popular impression or eclat they produce, but by their secret bearing on great humanitary ends.

1886 H. James Bostonians I. i. iv. 40 After fifty years of humanitary zeal.

1913 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 7 881 There is..a certain humanitary conduct generally followed by nations to compensate the private war losses as a matter..of grace and favor.

2003 L. Keir et al. Med. Assisting (ed. 5) i. 9/1 Dr. Phillipe Pinel..was the first physician to call for the humanitary treatment of mental patients.

1851 M. E. Lazarus Compar. Psychol. & Universal Analogy I. 92 The Old world..has borne the burden of the six days labor in the subversive societies, and has given the chief impulsion to humanitary progress in the attainment of essential destinies.

1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia iii. viii. 323 Individual and humanitary regeneration.

1885 L. Oliphant Sympneumata xvi. 240 Woman counted as for the half of humanitary life throughout the region of the world.