philanthropy

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Regarded from the point of view of the race, your philanthropy is a disguised form of brutality Mr. Keith All sentimentalists are criminals This perverse balderdash was getting on the nerves of the deputation.

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  1. noun The effort or inclination to increase the well-being of humankind, as by charitable aid or donations.
  2. noun Love of humankind in general.
  3. noun Something, such as an activity or institution, intended to promote human welfare.

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  • "A great many people go through the craze for philanthropy--" she began in the tone of mature experience; but Justine interrupted her with a laugh Philanthropy? —  The Fruit of the Tree
  • But the Terror would have none of it; his calm philosophic mind forbade him to discuss his chickens before they were hatched Since her philanthropy was confined entirely to cats, it is not remarkable that philanthropy, and not intelligence, was the chief characteristic of Lady Ryehampton. —  The Terrible Twins
  • You will say that this is no news, and that you never knew me possessed of the contrary qualities--philanthropy and sugariness. —  Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle
  • Why! Because philanthropy is the most selfish of vices. —  Visionaries
  • The captain had also engaged an elderly seaman of his acquaintance--out of pure philanthropy, as we all thought, since he was in a state of semi-starvation ashore--to act as a kind of sailing-master, so as to relieve the captain of ship duty at whaling time, allowing him still to head his boat. —  The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
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  1. Late Latin philanthrōpia, from Greek, from philanthrōpos, humane, benevolent : phil-, philo-, philo- + anthrōpos, man, mankind.

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  1. Formerly philanthropie; from French philanthropic =. Spanish filantropía = Portuguese philantropia = Italian filantropia, from Late Latin philanthropia, from Greek φιλανθρωπία, humanity, benevolence, generosity, from φιλάνθρωπος, loving mankind, humane, benevolent, liberal, from φιλεῑν, love, + ἄνθρωπος, man.
 

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