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Definition of Humanists
1. humanist [n] - See also: humanist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Humanists
Literary usage of Humanists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1908)
"The younger humanists considered themselves qualified to look down with contempt
on " the old barbarians " who busied themselves with scientific and ..."
2. Students' Handbook of the Facts of English Literature Arranged in Classified ...by James Francis Augustin Pyre by James Francis Augustin Pyre (1910)
"The humanists, however, did not confine their activities to pure learning. ...
Earlier English humanists. a. Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1391-1447). ..."
3. A History of Education by Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter (1905)
"The distinguishing characteristic of the humanists is the prominence which they
... The humanists are unsympathetic with the present; they depreciate the ..."
4. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt, Samuel George Chetwynd Middlemore (1904)
"It was a change under which the good and bad suffered indiscriminately. The first
to make these charges were certainly the humanists ..."
5. The Reformation in Germany by Henry Clay Vedder (1914)
"CHAPTER HI EXEUNT humanists WITH the prophets out of the way, and Carlstadt out
of the way, much had been done to prepare for a simple, ..."
6. The Reformation in Germany by Henry Clay Vedder (1914)
"CHAPTER m EXEUNT humanists WITH the prophets out of the way, and Carlstadt out
of the way, much had been done to prepare for a simple, undivided development ..."
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