inhumanitas

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ĭnhūmānĭtas, ātis, f. [inhumanus], inhumanity.

I Inhuman conduct , savageness , barbarity : crudelitas inhumanitasque, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 44, § 115; id. Deiot. 12, 32. —

II Want of good breeding.

A Incivility , impoliteness : quod ego non superbia neque inhumanitate faciebam. Cic. de Or. 1, 22, 99; id. Phil. 2, 4, 8.—

B Unkindness , disobligingness; opp. officiosus, Cic. Mur. 4, 9.—

C Surliness , churlishness : importunitas et inhumanitas omni aetati mofesta est, Cic. de Sen. 3, 7.—

D Niggardliness : (populus Rom.) non amat profusas epulas, sordes et inhumanitatem multo minus, Cic. Mur. 36, 76.

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