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Definition
marked by kindness — especially a motivation to reduce suffering of others or of animals
- Byrum was not a great coach, that I had decided long ago, but he was a humane one; and I learned more from his frailties, his terrors, and his flawed vulnerable humanity than I would have learned from a great coach's strength.Chapter 3.30 (33% in)
- I only wish Cromwell had been less lenient and humane in his dealings with these pitiful, contemptible brutes.Chapter 4.34 (49% in)
- We devised a sure-fire way to make 'em talk, and it's perfectly humane.Chapter 4.36 (11% in)
- It wouldn't be humane to let you watch it, Molligen.Chapter 4.36 (74% in)
- That was the process Mark, Tradd, and I had begun as we fought for last words to say to him, as we struggled toward a humane and brotherly farewell.Chapter 4.41 (82% in)
There are no more uses of "humane" in The Lords of Discipline.
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