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单词 humanly
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humanlyadj.

Forms: late Middle English humaynly.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a Dutch lexical item. Etymons: human n., -ly suffix1.
Etymology: < human n. (although this is first attested slightly later) + -ly suffix1, after Middle Dutch menschelijc of or relating to man (compare manly adj.).
Obsolete. rare.
Characteristic of human nature.
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1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 69 Whan a man doth amys And thenne by counseyl amendeth it That is humaynly [Du. menschelic] And so ought he to doo.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

humanlyadv.

Brit. /ˈhjuːmənli/, U.S. /ˈhjumənli/
Forms: 1500s–1700s humanely, 1500s– humanly.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: human adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < human adj. + -ly suffix2. Compare Middle French, French humainement as a human, according to human nature (late 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman as humeinement ), humanely, kindly (end of the 12th cent. in Old French), also parler humainement to speak from within human experience (15th cent.). Compare earlier humanely adv.
1. From a human standpoint, with regard to humans or that which is human; (also) within human ability or experience.
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the world > people > [adverb] > from human standpoint
humanly1581
anthropically1852
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. i. 4 The true pleasure (to speak humanly [Fr. humainement]) is that which naturally giueth pleasure to al persons in generall.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxvi. 209 Every accident..that may happ'n humanly to the affaires of men.
1699 T. Brown Let. to Dr. Brown at Tunbridge in Wks. (1711) IV. 129 Misfortunes..of which I can, humanly speaking, see no End.
1707 J. Freind Acct. Earl of Peterborow's Conduct in Spain 55 [The deed] was thought humanely impossible.
1773 J. Wesley Let. 12 Nov. (1931) VI. 54 It would do immense mischief; humanly speaking, it would be the greatest stumbling that was ever in Edinburgh yet.
1824 C. Lamb Lett. (1935) II. 419 Is Sunday, not divinely speaking, but humanly..a blessing?
1879 J. G. Butler Bible Readers' Comm. II. 54/2 Under circumstances never humanly matched.
1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 38/2 Megalopolis is both humanly and economically wasteful.
2006 S. M. Stirling Sky People ix. 205 Non-interference as far as humanly possible was official doctrine.
2. In a manner characteristic of or befitting a human; in accordance with human nature. Cf. humanely adv.
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the world > people > [adverb]
manlikelya1530
humanly1594
mortally1609
human-like1700
microcosmically1864
the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > [adverb] > humanely
manlya1375
humanly1594
humanelya1616
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye Second Part French Acad. xxx. 185 Shee [sc. faith] hath eies whereby she seeth diuinely and not humanely [Fr. humainement], which can neuer be deceiued as the eyes of the body may.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 14 Thou shouldest rather thinke Divinely of Man, then Humanely of God.
1662 Duchess of Newcastle Orations Divers Sorts iii. 57 Churches ought to be Built not only for the Souls of the Living, but for the Bodies of the Dead, wherein they may be inurned Decently, Humanly, and Religiously.
1686 N. Tate et al. tr. Heliodorus Æthiopian Hist. v. 212 It is yet in your choice to be dealt humanly withal, we permit you all that will to take your Long-boat and save your selves.
1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 37 Modestly bold, and Humanly severe.
1755 J. Sterling Serm. Annapolis Dec. 13, 1754 13 With what..resistless Eloquence, does this consummate Orator (scarce less humanly learned, than divinely inspir'd) insinuate himself into the Hearts of his Readers?
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) II. ix. ii. 295 To live, not humanly, but superhumanly.
1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 93 If he had not felt intensely and humanly.
1886 Law Times 80 318/1 Judges are humanly fallible and subject to prejudice.
1959 Listener 5 Feb. 263/2 We all know the deep-frozen expert from the one who is humanly concerned to put something across.
1971 G. Urang Shadows of Heaven ii. 86 Williams inclines to the Alexandrine view of the incarnation: ‘this person is God living and acting humanly’—rather then the Antiochene—‘this person is the Man in whom God lives and acts.’
2004 J. P. Sutton Thin White Lines viii. 195 An officer..fighting the urge within to do the normal thing, to vomit, to react humanly to a very inhuman situation.
3. Through human agency; by a person or by people.
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1659 R. Baxter Five Disputations of Church-government 40 Of their humanly instituted Office, it [sc. preaching] is as essential a part still.
1766 F. Blackburne Confessional vi. 192 This very sensible writer begins with making allowances for an (humanly) established authority in matters ecclesiastical.
1856 W. G. Simms Eutaw xliv. 544 The eye settled nowhere upon any definite route which might by possibility conduct to an occupied region—humanly occupied—of this domain.
1898 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 1 Mar. 6/3 Perhaps never a humanly constructed thing showed the actual effects of applied force as does the Maine [sc. a United States ship sunk in Havana].
1915 E. R. Lankester Diversions of Naturalist 291 Humanly cut elephant-bone recently found at Piltdown.
1996 World Archaeol. 28 202 Below the surface of the humanly inhabited world.
2003 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 29 May 41/2 But the in silico part, which yielded a four-foot-high computer printout, could never be humanly verified.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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