In the Renaissance, someone trained in the humane letters of the ancient classics and employed to use those skills More generally, one who studies the humanities as opposed to the sciences
a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts an advocate of the principles of humanism pertaining to or concerned with the humanities; "humanistic studies"; "a humane education"
A person who emphasizes reason and scientific inquiry, individual freedom and responsibility, human values and compassion, and the need for tolerance and cooperation, while rejecting supernatural, authoritarian, and anti-democratic beliefs and doctrines
marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare; "a humane physician"; "released the prisoner for humanitarian reasons"; "respect and humanistic regard for all members of our species"
of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion; "the humanist belief in continuous emergent evolution"- Wendell Thomas
One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title