Antedating of "Humanistic"

[Fred Shapiro]

humanistic (OED 1845)

1841 _American Eclectic_ Sept. 273 ff. (American Periodical Series)
One should proceed from the _humanistic_, the other from the _realistic_
stand-point.

Fred Shapiro


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