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[ noun ] all of the inhabitants of the earth
Synonyms Examples "all the world loves a lover" "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women" Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)When we see the steady and methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man 's worthlessness - until redeemed - the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon , a weapon designed and used time_and_time_again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church-state '' . (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)Each man can identify himself with the history and the death of Jesus_Christ because Jesus_Christ has identified himself with human history and human_death , coming as the head of a new humanity . The first turn of the spiral is the primeval history of humanity in Adam . From this earth , then , while it was still virgin God took dust and fashioned the man , the beginning of humanity '' . Irenaeus does not regard Adam and Eve merely as private individuals , but as universal human_beings , who were and are all_of humanity . |
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[ noun ] the quality of being humane
Used in print (High Fidelity, 11:10...)Yet no detail was too small to receive attention from this master , and as a result the playing here has humor , delicacy , and radiant humanity . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the quality of being human
Examples "he feared the speedy decline of all manhood" Used in print (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)There is no justification for systematizing the random statements of Irenaeus about the image of God beyond this , nor for reading into his imprecise usage the later theological distinction between the image of God ( humanity ) and the similitude of God ( immortality ) . |
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