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Definitionadj. of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism
Last update: June 21, 2015
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He never was a member of the Humanist circle; he was too much in earnest about religious questions and of too practical a turn of mind. [Please select]
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The foremost humanist of the age was Desiderius Erasmus. [Please select]
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An Italian humanist, Vittorino da Feltre, was the pioneer of Renaissance education. [Please select]
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The Renaissance, in a word, becomes the Reformation; the Humanist becomes the Reformer. [Please select]
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--Bartolomeo Fonte (Humanist, born 1445, died 1513): letter to Francesco Sassetto, published by Janitschek: _Gesells. [Please select]
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But, if the talker be a humanist, he must also see this distance-interval concretely and pragmatically, and confess it to consist of other intervening experiences--of possible ones, at all events, if not of actual. [Please select]
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The humanist sees all the time, however, that there is no absolute transcendency even about the more absolute realities thus conjectured or believed in. [Please select]
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