GC: adv
S : http://www.europarl.europa.eu/pdfs/news/public/focus/20101001FCS84570/20101001FCS84570_en.pdf (last access: March 2013); NAVARRO p. 471
N: humanely (adv):
- in a kind, merciful, or sympathetic way. The prisoners are being treated humanely.
- with the infliction of as little pain as possible. The fox must be killed humanely before the hounds can get to it.
- to be humanely destroyed. Our horse had to be humanely destroyed after breaking his right foreleg.
S: http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/humanely (last access: 4 September 2014).
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CR: human, humanly, humanised, humanitarian.