Humanizing [adjective]

There is reason to believe that he sometimes exercised a humanizing influence over his flock.

His courtship had been delayed so long on account of poverty that it brought little of humanizing emotion into his life.

I quote this as an instance of the lengths to which humanizing may be carried without discovery by the average reader.

The humanizing process is lavishly applied to all sorts of creatures, even to plants.

There is nothing humanizing in their relations with their fellow creatures.

But this magic progress has not been used for the humanizing of society.

Only toward the end of the sermon was the tension of her spirit relieved by seeing humanizing symptoms of weariness.

One sought face and figure in vain for some humanizing defect, some deviation from Olympian completeness.

His courtship had been delayed so long on account of poverty that it brought little of humanizing emotion into his228 life.

Romilly and Mackintosh had preceded him in the great work of reforming and humanizing the code of England.