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- adjective Not
philanthropic ;uncharitable ,misanthropic .
Etymologies
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un- + philanthropic
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Examples
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But philanthropic unbelievers and unphilanthropic believers are equally monstrosities.
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Alexander Maclaren 1868
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'I have heard affirmed (surely in jest),' observes he elsewhere, 'by not unphilanthropic persons, that it were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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