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Humanize   Listen
verb
Humanize  v. t.  (past & past part. humanized; pres. part. humanizing)  
1.
To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. (Also spelled humanise) "Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compassion?"
2.
To give a human character or expression to. "Humanized divinities."
3.
(Med.) To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph.





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"Humanize" Quotes from Famous Books



... clock in the corner stood voiceless. Three months of desertion will change any house into a tomb. And the Worth mansion was never too cheerful, anyway. Since the others of the family died, Ned hadn't stayed there long enough at a time to humanize it. ...
— From a Bench in Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... chorus to humanize and dilute a dark story is strongly opposed to the modern view of art. Modern art has to be what is called "intense." It is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means saying only one thing at a time, and saying it wrong. Modern tragic writers have ...
— Alarms and Discursions • G. K. Chesterton
... sublime it into truth? Yes, there have been such living harps among us; beings, the tones of whose sentiments, the melody of whose emotions, the cadences of whose sorrows, remain to thrill, and delight, and humanize our souls. They seem born for others, not for themselves. Alas, for the hapless companion of my early youth! Alas, for him, the pride of his country, the friend of my maturer manhood!—But my narrative ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 - Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative • Alexander Leighton


Words linked to "Humanize" :   humanise, alter, modify, dehumanize


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