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Definition of nurture:

  • (noun) the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
  • (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
  • (verb) help develop, help grow; "nurture his talents"
  • (verb) bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children"
  • (verb) provide with nourishment;

Sentence Examples:

They have been nurtured in the traditions of suffering.

This is but too apt to be their interpretation of the phrase "modernity in child nurture."

She had lost all her health long before in the bearing and nurturing of her children.

They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

Like a delicate child, the very care it demands nurtures your affection.

Have you had the heart to lay waste this land, which gave you birth and nurtured you?

I supposed you had been nurtured on beauty.

And possibly a lady of gentle nurture would not like me.

It clearly shows the small power of nurture against adverse natural tendencies.

Never again, to this day, no matter what my food, was I properly nurtured.

That I should ever have nurtured a child to grow up like this!

New France was born and nurtured in an atmosphere of religious devotion.

She did not want to nurture the hunter within him.

As his woman, she wanted to nurture a greater purpose in him.

They could not have been born or nurtured anywhere else on the face of the earth.

You can see that he has been softly nurtured.

"The direction and degree of development are largely determined by nurture."

A new meaning and value in early nurture is revealed in the light of this struggle.

"Nurture must care for both nourishment and activity."

How then may this great force be nurtured so that greatest results shall follow?

Then we shall know what nurture must do.

The work of nurture in connection with the feelings is now apparent.

Nurture will be concerned first with the teacher.

Nurture thinks beyond and deeper than this.

The most exquisite song that ends with birds and flowers falls below the highest nurture.

Every principle of nurture already discussed bears upon the presentation of the lesson.

He had carried them in his arms and nurtured them in his bosom for a thousand years.

And not the least important element of this nurture is that of perfect leisure.

They nurtured the arts, they discovered secrets.

In any other city a part of its mission would be the nurturing of vegetation.

All that is highest and best in the world is nurtured and fed by the milk of her nobility.

Every character is the joint product of nature and nurture.

It is not a good place for nurturing such things.

Much, then, depends upon the physical nurture of your child.

Destiny saved and nurtured him to fulfill that prophecy.

Nurture has triumphed over nature; the environment has produced its type.

The urge of the average woman is toward mothering, protection, nurture.

In woman, the dominant force is the nurturing instinct.

It is a pleasure to record that a worthy design was thus generously nurtured.

There was something about him that felt nurturing yet electric, casual yet happening.

Patience is a rare quality which should be treasured and nurtured.

The growth of the soul is largely affected by the nurture which it receives.

The same may be said as to the object of nurture.

Nurture is chiefly a matter of mental and spiritual atmosphere.

Next to atmosphere as an element in nurture I place ideals.

The relation of nurture and culture to the ascent of the soul is now evident.

The arts and sciences received nurture and subsidy.

I have nurtured a serpent in my bosom.

I truly have nurtured all things for this purpose.

I have been bred to that idea of country, nurtured on it.

For the benefit of gently nurtured and innocent folk, let me explain what a ward is.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts.

A good father easily grows as crooked as a dollar sign when he is nurtured only on money.

Nurture, and not surgery, was the doctrine of Squire Merritt.

The nation that can nurture men such as these can calmly meet her enemy in the gate.

She began to write, in order to console herself in the nurture of her own thoughts.

She did not hide her face after the manner of tenderly nurtured shrinking women.

If properly nurtured and cared for, they are a source of strength and power to her.

The effect of tidal movement in nurturing marine life is very great.

In such an atmosphere the boy was nurtured and reared.

The patriotic instinct nurtures in him a warm and generous humanity.

Eddy was nurtured and which was a background common to both herself and her disciples.

It is his nature, not his nurture, that is mainly responsible for his character.

He placed in her care to nurture and to love, the most helpless living thing.

Every growing thing is carefully nurtured and trained.

Could you lay waste this land, which gave you birth and nurtured you?

Here we must not be deceived by the effects of nurture, environment, or education.

The objective of love is not to create or nurture a so-called normal human being.

Nor had the inner man been nurtured any better than the outer.

Flowers nurtured by such moisture must be sweet.

They shall be tenderly and carefully nurtured.

A mother's tears, Gabriella, nurture great aspirations in a child.

The mere life of nurture and growth must therefore be put on one side.

Tennis in this sort of weather is no job for the delicately nurtured feminine.

And we are to nurture our bodies as the present instrument of mental action.

Every soul may plant and nurture it in its own garden, in its own Eden.

A fertile boundless land, a perfect climate, nurtured them tenderly.

He saw how expensive it was, going about with delicately nurtured women.

His father had nurtured and trained, in him, a helpless slave.

She was a product of the old South, gently nurtured in the sheltered life.

It is left to develop by chance instead of being nurtured by design.

There is a white variety which is often nurtured as a pet.

You know what the effect of nervous fear is upon a delicate, tenderly nurtured child.

This is the democracy which the frontier nurtured.

He watered it, and nurtured it, and could have clasped it in his arms.

It is an existential engagement directed toward nurturing human potential.

They may or may not be experienced as nurturing in a particular person's lived world.

One's purpose is to nurture; the other's is to be nurtured.

From humble soil is sometimes nurtured the choicest of blooms.

Garth's terrible scorn penetrated the last wrappings of the warmly nurtured ego within.

Spectators, I will freely declare to you the truth, by Bacchus, who nurtured me!

Still, she had nurtured him when he was young.

In making such a sacrifice they are but repaying the debt of nurture.

His servants had been sent to nurture it.

It must be carefully nurtured, and finally even taught how to fly and find its food.

There Abraham was carefully nurtured and brought up.

On either side of him lay the brown earth, silently nurturing the implanted seed.

And that love of his was nurtured and sustained by the most generous thoughts.

A fear of the consequences entered his gently nurtured mind.

That an aristocracy thus nurtured should degenerate can cause no surprise.