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Mankind collectively; the human race. But hearing oftentimes The still, and music humanity. Wordsworth. It is a debt we owe to humanity. S. S. Smith.

The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.

follower of Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ.

A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity. "Thou fell barbarian." Philips.

Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity. Treating Christians with a barbarity which would have shocked the very Moslem. Macaulay.

Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual. Shak.

To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize. The process of bestializing humanity. Hare.

ere the enormities, branded and condemned by the first and most natural verdict of common humanity. South.

The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.

uddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It presents release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirvâna) as the greatest good. Buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life. Their number was estimated in…

courage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle. To cherish virtue and humanity. Burke.

Flying around. The circumvolant troubles of humanity. G. Macdonald.

recently governed Ireland, at a momentous conjuncture, with eminent firmness, wisdom, and humanity. Macaulay.

quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity. Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty. Shak.

ker. It derogates little from his fortitude, while it adds infinitely to the honor of his humanity. Burke.

aining, whether physical, mental, or moral. Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity. Bacon. Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience. C. J. Smith.

[culture] is after all a dainty and divisive quality, and can not reach to the depths of humanity. J. C. Shairp. -- Di*vi"sive*ly, adv. -- Di*vi"sive*ness, n. Carlyle.

Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water. The current of humanity, with its heavy proportion of very useless driftwood. New Your Times.

urge with energy; as, to enforce arguments or requests. Enforcing sentiment of the thrust humanity. Burke.

The human eace; mankind; humanity. All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. Gen. vi. 12.