0 to make something less unpleasant and more suitable for people: --
1 to make someone or something kinder, gentler, or more agreeable: --
Globalization, even if predominantly through the growth of market relations, can help to familiarize and therefore to humanize people who would otherwise feel no connection to one another.
Surely the threat to human dignity, if there is such a threat, would be all the more significant with efforts to "humanize" our more distant nonhuman relatives?
While the first generations of scholarly endeavors of all awakening peoples strive to humanize the language, subsequent generations are concerned with purifying their language of the unsuccessful scholastic elements.
Arguably, the sheer number of towns, their independence and their small size all played a part in humanizing industrialization.
I think it humanizes them in a different sort of way.
The effectiveness of metaphors both naturalizing and humanizing relies on the existence of common assumptions about the object of comparison.
In the same way, the (humanizing) immigrant metaphor organizes our view of the sparrow.
Prevention of severe infection in high-risk infants is achieved through immunoprophylaxis with specific antibody-containing preparations, especially humanized, murine monoclonal antibody (palivizumab).
