Synonyms for humanize

Grammar : Verb

Spell : hyoo-muh-nahyz or, often, yoo-

Phonetic Transcription : ˈhyu məˌnaɪz or, often, ˈyu-

Définition of humanize

Origin : c.1600, from human + -ize. Related: Humanized; humanizing.

verb acculturate

Example sentences :

Let us look on this scene a moment; it may humanize our feelings.
Extract from : « Wigwam and War-path; Or the Royal Chief in Chains » by A. B. (Alfred Benjamin) Meacham

These cruelties will have a tendency to humanize Christianity.
Extract from : « Looking Back » by Merrick Abner Richardson

What can be done to humanize his lot, he does with great skill.
Extract from : « Friends of France » by Various

Which are harder to humanize, in everybody, than any deepest deeps.
Extract from : « I, Mary MacLane » by Mary MacLane

Their chief end is to socialize and humanize individual men.
Extract from : « The New Stone Age in Northern Europe » by John M. Tyler

He helped to civilize the church and to humanize the people.
Extract from : « The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) » by Robert G. Ingersoll

But the crucial question is—how big a house can she humanize?
Extract from : « Atlantic Classics » by Various

The more we humanize literature the greater art does it become.
Extract from : « The Literature of Ecstasy » by Albert Mordell

Thus are women working, women of all classes, to humanize the factory.
Extract from : « What eight million women want » by Rheta Childe Dorr

The white South must humanize the black not for the sake of the negro, but for the sake of itself.
Extract from : « Birthright » by T.S. Stribling

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