Philanthropistic

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    philanthropic (pertaining to, or characteristic of, a philanthropist). dated, rare

    "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[.]"

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"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[.]"

Etymology

From philanthropist + -ic.

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