Humanist Synonyms

hyo͝omə-nĭst
An advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. classicist
  2. altruist
  3. humanitarian
  4. scholastic
Of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. humanistic
Marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. humanistic
  2. human-centred
  3. human-centered
  4. humanitarian
  5. humane

Words Related to Humanist

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Humanist Sentence Examples

  • In this Italy, and especially the renowned school of Padua, took the first step, where Giovanni De Monte (Montanus), (1498-1552), already mentioned as a humanist, gave clinical lectures on the patients in the hospital of St Francis, which may still be read with interest.

  • But there the German humanist who perhaps approached most nearly the Italian type, furnishes a good illustration.

  • Zwingli was a humanist, a type abhorred of Luther; and he was far more ready for the polite Erasmian society of Basel than for a monastery.

  • Towards the end of September he fell a victim to the plague which was ravaging the land, and his illness sobered his spirit and brought into his message a deeper note than that merely moral and common-sense one with which, as a polite humanist, he had hitherto been content.

  • In the 15th century it was the seat of a celebrated academy, founded by the humanist Rodolphus Agricola, which contributed not a little to the revival of learning in this part of Germany; Erasmus of Rotterdam was one of its students.

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