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Philanthropistic
Phi-lanˊthro-pis′tic
,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)
- 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[.]
- 1851 Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling