adjective as in strong fondness

Strongest matches

humanizing, gentling, mellifying

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Example Sentences

Example:The treatment aimed to humanize the conditions in the camps.

Definition:The process of making a person or situation more gentle, kind, and sympathetic to others; to make something less harsh or brutal.

From humanizing

Example:The city council is proposing changes to unbrutalize the city’s approach to public safety.

Definition:To make something less harsh, severe, or brutal and more kind or mild.

From gentling

Example:By mellifying his tone, the teacher was able to unbrutalize the classroom atmosphere.

Definition:To make less harsh or severe, often in reference to language or treatment.

From mellifying