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humane society

noun

  1. (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.


humane society

noun

  1. an organization for promotion of humane ideals, esp in dealing with animals
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of humane society1

First recorded in 1770–80
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Example Sentences

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Its achievement drew page-one reportage and plaudits from conservationists and animal welfare groups who saw it as a path to “making extinction events a thing of the past,” as Robin R. Ganzert, chief executive of the American Humane Society, gushed on Colossal’s website.

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The chaos enables Trump and his allies and other enemies of democracy and a humane society to get and keep more corrupt power, a power without limits and unbounded in its ambitions and harm.

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The preserve is certified by the American Humane Society and registered with the U.S.

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The plutocrats and kleptocrats will also need compliant subjects who see themselves first as consumers and workers — most of whom will be stuck in a state of perpetual survival mode and economic precarity as they try to endure cannibal capitalism — and not primarily as citizens and responsible members of a humane society with any obligation or responsibility to other human beings beyond their immediate family and “community.”

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Trump’s will to power and his personality demand that he not stop his “shock and awe” campaign against American democracy and a humane society.

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