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humanitary

humanitary adjective: humanitarian.

Adjective

humanitary (comparative more humanitary, superlative most humanitary)

  1. (archaic) humanitarian
    • In confinement ladies are attended, not by the ordinary doctors, but by women especially devoted to the calling, who regard their profession as honorable and humanitary.1887, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 31, page 629

Forms of humanitary

comparativemore humanitary
superlativemost humanitary

Origin of humanitary

From humanity + -ary.

Questions about humanitary

What does humanitary mean?
Humanitary means humanitarian.
What part of speech is humanitary?
Humanitary is an adjective.

Words near humanitary in the dictionary

  1. humanitarianizes
  2. humanitarianizing
  3. humanitarianly
  4. humanitarianness
  5. humanitarians
  6. humanitary
  7. humanitian
  8. humanitians
  9. humanities
  10. humanity
  11. humanizable

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