humanity
the quality of being humane
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,591 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,479 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- the quality of being humane
- the quality of being human also: humanness, manhood he feared the speedy decline of all manhood
- all of the living human inhabitants of the earth also: world, human race, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind all the world loves a lovershe always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women
humanity in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Old maids and old bachelors are the tossed about odds and ends of humanity.
Representative Plays by American Dramatists — Love in '76 · Oliver Bell Bunce · Chapter 1
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He knows how low humanity can stoop, and what aberrations there are in brains apparently the soundest.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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It comes,--the beautiful, the free, The crown of all humanity,-- In silence and alone To seek the elected one.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1
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No wanton beauties of humanity Her pretty brows, but beams that clear the sight Of him that seeks the true philosophy!
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1
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Humanity abhors the assailant of womanhood, and this charge upon the Negro at once placed him beyond the pale of human sympathy.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1