philanthropistic
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
philanthropistic (comparative more philanthropistic, superlative most philanthropistic)
- (dated, rare) philanthropic (pertaining to, or characteristic of, a philanthropist).
- 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling:
- Over the wild-surging chaos, in the leaden air, are only sudden glares of revolutionary lightning; then mere darkness, with philanthropistic phosphorescences, empty meteoric lights[.]
References edit
- “philanthropistic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.