单词 | humanizing |
释义 | humanizingn. The action of humanize v. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > [noun] > humaneness > making humanization1753 humanizing1763 ?1630 T. Adams Wks. 1235 But the fruitfulnesse of a virgin doth not more exceed all wonders then the humanizing of God doth exceed that. 1685 tr. B. Gracián y Morales Courtiers Oracle clxxvii. 163 By Divinizing, one gets Respect, by Humanizing, Contempt. 1727 Missionalia 66 The Humanizing of them, and Reducing them from a Savage, to a Civil Way of Life. 1763 Monthly Rev. Feb. 101 Nec finit esse feros, may be extended to signify the humanizing of a favage Critic. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. x. 144 A fresh centre of instruction, humanising, disciplining..to hundreds of little savage spirits. 1894 J. F. Oakeshott (title) The humanizing of the poor law. 1934 M. T. King Mothercraft ix. 117 It must be clearly understood that no amount of ‘humanising’ can ever produce a milk-mixture which is ‘as good as’ human milk, created by God for the individual baby. 1988 J. Trollope Choir i. 8 I cannot bear this whimsical humanizing of animals... It demeans both the human and the animal. 1998 A. Forna Mother of All Myths (1999) vi. 162 Among the very first to make use of the humanizing of the foetus were anti-abortionists. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). humanizingadj. That humanizes, esp. civilizing, refining. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > [adjective] > humane > making humanizing1740 1740 G. Turnbull Princ. Moral Philos. I. i. vi. 200 The laws of Lycurgus..tended to make men ferocious, and to prevent their being civilized and polished by the humanizing arts. 1793 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 3 140 A magazine or common news-paper, would..thus contribute to diffuse a more general knowledge of this ornamental and humanizing science. 1816 R. Southey Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo ii. xvii The love of peace and humanizing art. 1828 Q. Rev. 38 211 The socialising and humanising effects of a liberal commerce with other nations. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 145 Love..has exercised a humanizing if not a strengthening influence on the world. 1969 Listener 16 Oct. 508/2 They kept, in other words, to a view of art as a humanising study. 1995 Daily Tel. 13 Oct. 21/7 [It sc. gay marriage] is not a radical step; it is a profoundly humanising, traditionalising step. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1630adj.1740 |
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