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Nurture   /nˈərtʃər/   Listen
noun
Nurture  n.  
1.
The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training. "A man neither by nature nor by nurture wise."
2.
That which nourishes; food; diet.



verb
Nurture  v. t.  (past & past part. nurtured; pres. part. nurturing)  
1.
To feed; to nourish.
2.
To educate; to bring or train up. "He was nurtured where he had been born."
Synonyms: To nourish; nurse; cherish; bring up; educate; tend. To Nurture, Nourish, Cherish. Nourish denotes to supply with food, or cause to grow; as, to nourish a plant, to nourish rebellion. To nurture is to train up with a fostering care, like that of a mother; as, to nurture into strength; to nurture in sound principles. To cherish is to hold and treat as dear; as, to cherish hopes or affections.






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"Nurture" Quotes from Famous Books



... Under such a sovereign, the court, which had been little better than a brothel under the preceding reign, became the nursery of virtue and generous ambition. Isabella watched assiduously over the nurture of the high-born damsels of her court, whom she received into the royal palace, causing them to be educated under her own eye, and endowing them with liberal portions on their marriage. [55] By these and similar acts of affectionate solicitude, ...
— History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella V1 • William H. Prescott

... of time ordinarily required by a course through college, but it was not at college that most of this period had been passed. He had left Yale at the end of his sophomore year, and had taken passage, not for Chicago, but for Liverpool, compromising thus his full claims on nurture from an alma mater for the more alluring prospect of culture and adventure on the Continent. This supplementary course of self-improvement and self-entertainment had now ...
— With the Procession • Henry B. Fuller

... as the spring began to spread green loveliness again across the landscape, the man turned, with a full heart, to the care and nurture of his hope. The winter of waiting had taught ...
— Jewel's Story Book • Clara Louise Burnham

... Mr. EXMOOR, "is another of my simple tales. Yet I send it forth into the world thinking that haply there may be some, and they not of the baser sort, who reading therein as the humour takes them, may draw from it nurture for their minds. For truly it is in the nature of fruit-trees, whereof, without undue vaunting, I may claim to know somewhat, that the birds of the air, the tits, the wrens, ay, even unto the saucy little ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, May 23, 1891 • Various

... learning, pale with the close breath of the cloister, here spent the noon and evening of their lives, ruled savage hordes with a mild, parental sway, and stood serene before the direst shapes of death. Men of courtly nurture, heirs to the polish of a far-reaching ancestry, here, with their dauntless hardihood, put to shame the boldest ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index • Various


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