English edit

Etymology edit

humanate +‎ -ion or human +‎ -ation

Noun edit

humanation (plural humanations)

  1. (theology, rare) The fact or process of becoming human.
    • 2006, Marsha Keith Schuchard, Why Mrs Blake Cried, Pimlico, published 2007, page 33:
      In sixteenth-century England the Protestant Church dropped the word ‘humanation’, but the German version, Menschwendung, survived in Lutheran ‘wound mysticism’.