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Philanthropistic

Phi-lanˊthro-pis′tic

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Adj.
Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a philanthropist.
[R.]
Carlyle.

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philanthropistic

philanthropistic

English

Adjective

philanthropistic (comparative more philanthropistic, superlative most philanthropistic)

  1. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a philanthropist.
    • 1851 Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling
      Over the wild-surging chaos, in the leaden air, are only sudden glares of revolutionary lightning; then mere darkness, with philanthropistic phosphorescences, empty meteoric lights[.]