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hu·mani·tari·an·ism (-iz′əm)
noun
- the beliefs or actions of a humanitarian (sense )
- Ethics
- the doctrine that humanity's chief or only obligations are to its temporal welfare
- the doctrine that a human being is capable of perfection without divine aid
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