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Antonyms for philanthropy

Grammar : Noun
Spell : fi-lan-thruh-pee
Phonetic Transcription : fɪˈlæn θrə pi

Definition of philanthropy

Origin :
  • c.1600, from Late Latin philanthropia, from Greek philanthropia "kindliness, humanity, benevolence, love to mankind" (from gods, men, or things), from philanthropos (adj.) "loving mankind, useful to man," from phil- "loving" (see philo-) + anthropos "mankind" (see anthropo-). Originally in English in the Late Latin form; modern spelling attested from 1620s.
  • noun humanitarianism
Example sentences :
  • O that philosophy or philanthropy could but find it out and work it!
  • Extract from : « Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia » by Thomas Mitchell
  • But now, when the stress came, all this philanthropy fell away.
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
  • There was something in these morsels of philanthropy which reassured the sisters.
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • But to call this ethics 'philanthropy' is the strangest of mistakes.
  • Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
  • At any rate, I prefer to take it as philanthropy rather than fun.
  • Extract from : « In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories » by Robert Barr
  • Where your philosophy, your philanthropy, and your competition?
  • Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
  • "You're more at home with philanthropy than horrors, Colonel," he remarked.
  • Extract from : « The Avenger » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
  • He was temperate in his rationalism and thrifty in his philanthropy.
  • Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford
  • If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy, shall that pass?
  • Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • After forty philanthropy should take a chronic form, and never have paroxysms.
  • Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. » by Charles James Lever

Synonyms for philanthropy

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