Definition of humanitarian

• a. - Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature.
• a. - Content with right affections and actions toward man; ethical, as distinguished from religious; believing in the perfectibility of man's nature without supernatural aid.
• a. - Benevolent; philanthropic.
• n. - One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human.
• n. - One who limits the sphere of duties to human relations and affections, to the exclusion or disparagement of the religious or spiritual.
• n. - One who is actively concerned in promoting the welfare of his kind; a philanthropist.