Believing that a classical training alone could form a perfect man, the Humanists so called themselves in opposition to the Scholastics, and adopted the term humaniora (the humanities) as signifying the scholarship of the ancients. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
This leads to a certain defensiveness from the studies we in Norway would call "humaniora", that is the arts and to a certain extent philosphy, to counter the overwhelming favouritism of empirical studies and quantitative methodology. From Wordnik.com. [At the 55th annual ICA conference] Reference
When you get to high school, pick biology and study that afterwards, in stead of humaniora. From Wordnik.com. [Blathering Lockdown: Day Seven « Whatever] Reference
En ting er jeres primitive og forsimplede fremstilling af humaniora, som noget der ikke kræver kreativitet - hvad værre er, er at jeres påstand simpelthen er falsk. From Wordnik.com. [Blogbot - forsiden] Reference
03 / humaniora / 2480747. htm. From Wordnik.com. [E-LIS] Reference
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