humane

Example Sentences

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He thought such benignant provision betokened some of the humaner characteristics of civilization, and longed eagerly to make acquaintance with those nobler institutions which might be presented below.

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Bird, Robert Montgomery

Few writers rose above theological controversy or moral treatises, and the humaner side of literature was almost entirely neglected.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

And in No. 15, he says that interpretation should always incline to the humaner side, even when the rigorous side may seem the more likely.

From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous

All his inherited and cultivated instincts yearned for the brilliant and complex civilizations of Europe, but the new world had taken a firm hold upon his humaner and appealed more insidiously to his despotic.

From Rezanov by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

The situation has been incredibly shocking; the employers who seek such an advantage over their humaner rivals, and the legislators who have winked at their inhumanity, deserve no mild reprobation.

From Problems of Conduct by Drake, Durant