humanitarian

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for humanitarian

humanitarian 🔊 /hjuˌmæˌnʌtɛˈɹiʌn or juˌmæˌnʌtɛˈɹiʌn/

humanitarian : මානවවාදී

humanitarian definition

Adjective.

  1. Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature.
  2. Content with right affections and actions toward man; ethical, as distinguished from religious; believing in the perfectibility of man's nature without supernatural aid.
  3. Benevolent; philanthropic.

Noun.

  1. One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human.
  2. One who limits the sphere of duties to human relations and affections, to the exclusion or disparagement of the religious or spiritual.
  3. One who is actively concerned in promoting the welfare of his kind; a philanthropist.