humanist

IPA: hjˈumʌnɪst

Relating to humanism or the humanities.
(typography) Of a typeface: resembling classical handwritten monumental Roman letters rather than the 19th-century grotesque typefaces.

Examples of "humanist" in Sentences

It was what they call their humanist communion service.
Our guest of honour, not only a sportsman but a humanist, is well acquainted with that fact.
Northeast corner of Urbino intarsia, with Federico in humanist's robes and his armor at right.
Some observers say "humanist" is code for "atheist," and are titillated at the notion that America might now have its first openly atheist senator.
The fourth figure, diagonally opposite from the visitor's entrance, is Duke Federico, depicted in humanist robes holding a spear with its point turned downward.
In spite of the sobering tenor of "uprightness" in humanist pedagogical writings, the techniques practiced in schools such as Ca 'Zoiosa, especially with younger students, are more accurately characterized as jocoserious.
Indeed, just as researchers can benefit from seeking their humanist nucleus and heart, every humanist is always a kind of researcher, drawn — in the spirit of cooperation, sharing, and being-in-common — to explore, to expand.
Although both studioli embody a common pedagogical foundation, the architecture of the Gubbio studiolo provided an ideal setting — a florilegium18 — for cultivating the "right" habits of thought recommended in humanist learning.