Humanation

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The fact or process of becoming human. rare

    "In sixteenth-century England the Protestant Church dropped the word ‘humanation’, but the German version, Menschwerdung, survived in Lutheran ‘wound mysticism’."

Example

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"In sixteenth-century England the Protestant Church dropped the word ‘humanation’, but the German version, Menschwerdung, survived in Lutheran ‘wound mysticism’."

Etymology

From humanate + -ion or human + -ation.

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