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Definition

marked by kindness — especially a motivation to reduce suffering of others or of animals

The Humane Society is working to eliminate cruelty to animals.

humane = marked by kindness — especially a motivation to reduce suffering of others or of animals

The chickens are not treated humanely. Their living conditions are inhumane.

(Editor's note: The prefix "in-" in inhumane means not and reverses the meaning of humane. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.)

He was a fairly humane man toward slaves and other animals; he was an exceedingly humane man toward the erring of his own race.
Mark Twain -- Pudd'n'head Wilson
they are naturally going to want it produced in the cleanest, most humane and environmentally healthy ways.
Michael Pollan -- The Omnivore's Dilemma

humane = marked by kindness

Wouldn't be humane if he did.
Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
"I suppose you would hardly ask me to call you a humane man," returned the doctor with a sneer, "and so my feelings may surprise you, Master Silver.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island
She took it all humanely.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
"Because," shouted the cop, "it's going to be very intelligent, and quite interesting and humane!
Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Lincoln's utter lack of personal malice during these years, his humane detachment, his tragic sense of life, have no parallel in political history.
Richard Hofstadter -- Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
-Poison," she says, unflinching, "is unbelievably humane.
Ally Condie -- Matched
How silly and childish of me, a humanely minded opponent of war though I was, to have been horrified by those pictures.
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
But artifice was necessary, he had found, for stemming the cold and inhumane blast of the world's contempt.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure

(Editor's note: The prefix "in-" in inhumane means not and reverses the meaning of humane. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.)

It will be more humane for the draccus and safer for us.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
I know I have these unrealistic beliefs and thoughts, that the world can be peaceful, can be healthy, people can be humane.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
Are you likely to be more humane to me than others were yesterday?
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
He regarded this wish for the dog's death as humane, for he could not bear, he told himself, to see anything suffer.
Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
The negative is if it doesn't come off, if the humane society doesn't let me in the cage.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
"If you can manage to put up with me a little more humanely, I'll go on doing what I can for Mister Rufus."
Octavia Butler -- Kindred
Even when the humanity isn't very humane, or the heart ailment a disease.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Liberal SS circles felt it would be more humane.
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49

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