All 3 Uses
philanthropy
in
Earth's Holocaust
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- The hopeful philanthropist esteemed it a token that the millennium was already come; while persons of another stamp, in whose view mankind was a breed of bulldogs, prophesied that all the old stoutness, fervor, nobleness, generosity, and magnanimity of the race would disappear,—these qualities, as they affirmed, requiring blood for their nourishment.†
philanthropist = someone who helps others -- especially by donating money to worthy causes
- "You forget, general," rejoined I, "that, in this advanced stage of civilization, Reason and Philanthropy combined will constitute just such a tribunal as is requisite."†
philanthropy = helping others; or an organization that does so
- You are misled by a false philanthropy; you know not what you do.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(philanthropy) helping others -- especially donating money to worthy causes; or an organization that does so
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)