humanly
[hyoo-muh n-lee or, often, yoo-]
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Origin of humanly
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Contemporary Examples
And anyway, if Brecht did not want us to feel for Mother Courage, why did he make her so richly shaded and humanly fallible?
The Secretary of State has made it abundantly clear that he wants this whole process to be as drama-free as humanly possible.
Parkour is the art of getting from one place to another, on foot, as creatively as humanly possible.
But there is an obsession, bordering on pathology, with keeping wages as low as humanly possible.
In your opinion, was it humanly possible to win the Tour de France, seven times in a row, without doping?
Historical Examples
Sears had determined to trouble the judge as little as was humanly possible.
Fair HarborJoseph Crosby Lincoln
And yet, humanly speaking, it is the soundest and hardest of common sense.
The MissionaryGeorge Griffith
Yet the men have all the comforts that it is humanly possible to obtain.
In other cities it was completed as far as humanly possible.
There is no fear (humanly speaking) of my moving for a long time yet.
Apologia Pro Vita SuaJohn Henry Cardinal Newman
humanly
- by human powers or means
- in a human or humane manner
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