adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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Whitehall's obsessive secrecy may have a more humane base than generally allowed, though that seems rather unlikely.
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White women say in the polls that they want more humane politics.
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Often an arrangement is accepted as being faster, more cost-effective and more humane .
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And the Communists were no more humane toward their prisoners than their oppressors had been toward them.
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Time passed and more humane , non-invasive methods of measuring blood pressure were devised.
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He had a more humane kinda approach.
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Though springing from Genesis, this is at once more ambiguous, more heroic, and more humane .
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The design trend called New Urbanism or Neo-Traditional development argues for a more humane , pedestrian-friendly approach.
■ NOUN
treatment
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It was also the result of mounting pressure from the late 1870s for more humane treatment of the aged.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Animals are now raised in more humane conditions.
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French revolutionaries considered death by guillotine to be a more humane method of execution.
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Imprisonment is not a humane form of punishment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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First thing first: a humane agreement between two peoples who must live side by side.
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He represents the { new morality } founded on the natural goodness of man; he is tolerant and humane .
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No one would deny that music can embody great humane and religious themes.
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There the master is a humane aristocrat possessed of a fine library, progressive opinions and a patrician kindness.
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There was a humane royal government, Tudor or Stuart, to slow the thing down.
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This has both humane and practical interest.
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Time passed and more humane , non-invasive methods of measuring blood pressure were devised.
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What is now plain is that the best work has a deep capacity for humane , even spiritual insight.