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noun
A scholar of one of the subjects in the humanities.
A person who believes in the philosophy of humanism.
In the Renaissance, a scholar of Greek and Roman classics.
A secularist, especially an agnostic or atheist.
Religious Census Figures Challenged by Humanists
Humanists do not believe in a God who gives us moral codes; nor do they believe in an afterlife, in which the good will go to heaven and the bad to hell.
adj
Relating to humanism or the humanities.
Of a typeface: resembling classical handwritten monumental Roman letters rather than the 19th-century grotesque typefaces.