philanthropistic

English

Etymology

From philanthropist +‎ -ic.

Adjective

philanthropistic (comparative more philanthropistic, superlative most philanthropistic)

1. (dated, rare) philanthropic (pertaining to, or characteristic of, a philanthropist).
   • 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling:

     Over the wild-surging chaos, in the leaden air, are only sudden glares of revolutionary lightning; then mere darkness, with philanthropistic phosphorescences, empty meteoric lights[.]

References

• “philanthropistic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.