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Definition of Philanthropists
1. philanthropist [n] - See also: philanthropist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Philanthropists
Literary usage of Philanthropists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chartist Movement in Its Social and Economic Aspects by Frank Ferdinand Rosenblatt (1916)
"Besides their opposition to machinery and their doctrine of communism in land,
these " philanthropists " endeavored to " enlighten " the people that " it ..."
2. The Woman Question in Europe: A Series of Original Essays by Theodore Stanton (1884)
"I have been asked to tell something about the work of women as philanthropists.
But the space assigned me is limited, so I must pass over the work of which ..."
3. The North American Review by Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1891)
"THE THREE philanthropists. BY COLONEL ROBERT G. INGERSOLL. 1 Well, while 1 am a
beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1817)
"... philanthropists. Second Edition. London. 1816. 6. The Monthly Magazine. 7.
Cobbett's Political Register. TF the opinions of profligate and of mistaken ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"John Woolman and Anthony Benezet, illustrious as Quaker philanthropists, were
the pioneer abolitionists of modern times. In 1776 the holding of slaves was ..."
6. The German Element in the United States by Albert Bernhardt Faust (1909)
"(5) German-American philanthropists An admirable trait of the rich American is
his liberality toward charitable and educational institutions. ..."
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