humanitarianist

plural humanitarianists

1. Synonym of humanitarian.

   For liberal humanitarianists, Somalia was significant but only one of many regional conflicts that had humanitarian concerns.

   2008, Eugene R. Wittkopf, James M. McCormick, The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy, page 360

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   The so-called poor of Cité Soleil do not see themselves as the poor framed by the crocodile tears shed by humanitarianists. The triumph of the slaves in 1804 happened because they did not dwell on being slaves; and so it is with the poor.

   2011, Jacques Depelchin, Reclaiming African History, page 29

   Synonyms: humanitarian