humanist

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: humanist

1	n adj	an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare
2	n adj	a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: humanist

Type of:: advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent
a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea

Examples:: show 12 examples...; hide 12 examples...; Desiderius Erasmus
Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe; although his criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church led to the Reformation, he opposed violence and condemned Martin Luther (1466-1536); Frederick James Furnivall
English philologist who first proposed the Oxford English Dictionary (1825-1910); Baron Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt
German philologist noted for his studies of the relation between language and culture (1767-1835); Benjamin Jowett
English classical scholar noted for his translations of Plato and Aristotle (1817-1893); Friedrich Max Muller
British philologist (born in Germany) who specialized in Sanskrit (1823-1900); Sir James Augustus Henry Murray
Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915); George Gilbert Aime Murphy
British classical scholar (born in Australia) who advocated the League of Nations and the United Nations (1866-1957); Rasmus Christian Rask
Danish philologist whose work on Old Norse pioneered in the field of comparative linguistics (1787-1832); Walter William Skeat
English philologist (1835-1912); John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
British philologist and writer of fantasies (born in South Africa) (1892-1973); Karl Adolph Verner
Danish philologist (1846-1896); Friedrich August Wolf
German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; classical scholar, classicist
a student of ancient Greek and Latin; man of letters
a man devoted to literary or scholarly activities; philologist, philologue
a humanist specializing in classical scholarship; Latinist
a specialist in the Latin language

Type of:: bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student
a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

“"the humanist belief in continuous emergent evolution"- Wendell Thomas”

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