L.H.D.
Americanabbreviation
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Doctor of Humane Letters.
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Doctor of Humanities.
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Etymology
Origin of L.H.D.
From New Latin Litterārum Humāniōrum Doctor
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Amid a wild honking of horns he motored to his birthplace at small Ripon, Wis., had a park named for him, received an L.H.D. from Ripon College.
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Dolores Reade Hope, L.H.D., wife, mother and community leader.
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Smith College Pearl Anderson Wanamaker, superintendent of public instruction in the state of Washington L.H.D.
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For making it possible in a still young nation to celebrate old age, University of Massachusetts James Baldwin, L.H.D., writer.
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L.H.D., a leading light of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who offers himself as comic relief in our Clerical Vaudeville.
From The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition by Sinclair, Upton
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