Meaning of Nurture | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care
   countable, uncountable
2. That which nourishes; food; diet.
   countable, uncountable
3. The environmental influences that contribute to a person’s development (as opposed to "nature").
   countable, uncountable
4. The act or process of encouraging the growth or development of something.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Other great houses there bee of the English in Ireland, which thorough licentious conversing with the Irish, or marrying, or fostering with them, or lacke of meete nurture, or other such unhappy occasions, have degendred from their auncient dignities, and are now growne as Irish, as O-hanlans breech, as the proverbe there is.”

“A Deuill, a borne-Deuill, on whoſe nature / Nurture can neuer ſticke :”

“[…]a man neither by nature nor by nurture wiſe.”

“The problem is aggravated by the fact that much of the gay sub-culture is not conducive to the nurture of the radical ego integrity of which Erikson speaks.”

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