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   Hu·mane

   /hyo͞oˈmān/

   

   adjective

   • 1. having or showing compassion or benevolence: "regulations ensuring the humane treatment of animals"
   • ▪ inflicting the minimum of pain: "humane methods of killing"
   • 2. (of a branch of learning) intended to have a civilizing or refining effect on people: formal "the center emphasizes economics as a humane discipline"

   Word Origin late Middle English: the earlier form of human, restricted to the senses above in the 18th century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. humaneness noun

   Scrabble Points: 11

   • H

     4

   • U

     1

   • M

     3

   • A

     1

   • N

     1

   • E

     1

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