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philanthropinism

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A system of education on so-called natural principles, promoted by Basedow and his friends in Germany in the eighteenth century.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A system of education on so-called natural principles, attempted in Germany in the last century by Basedow, of Dessau.

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  • noun A nineteenth-century German system of education on so-called natural principles.

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