单词 | philanthropism |
释义 | philanthropismn. The profession or practice of philanthropy; a philanthropic theory or system. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] philanthropia1608 philanthropy1623 philanthropism1835 humanism1836 Samaritanism1843 humanitarianism1850 humanitas1944 1835 Fraser's Mag. 11 102 A time of Tithe Controversy, Encyclopedism, Catholic Rent, Philanthropism, and the Revolution of Three Days! a1861 A. H. Clough Poems & Prose Remains (1869) I. 301 The more enlightened philanthropism of England resorts to the formation of charitable societies, to district-visiting, distribution of tracts. 1901 J. Conrad & F. M. Hueffer Inheritors x. 145 I had regarded him as a rather tiresome person in whom a pompous philanthropism took the place of human feelings. 1934 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. 33 150 Unfortunately these ‘friends’ of African education, despite their paternalism and philanthropism, are humans. 2003 Times (Nexis) 15 Dec. (Sport section) 35 The late 18th-century cotton industrialist campaigned to improve not only the conditions in his mills but extended his philanthropism to the social lives of his workers by introducing evening lectures and concerts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1835 |
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