nurture
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nurture
- /ˈnɜːɹ.t͡ʃəɹ/
Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)tʃə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English norture, noriture, from Old French norriture, norreture, from Late Latin nutritura (“nourishment”), from Latin nutrire (“to nourish”).
noun nurtures · nouriture · nutriture
- The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care
- That which nourishes; food; diet. 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
- The environmental influences that contribute to a person’s development (as opposed to "nature"). A Deuill, a borne-Deuill, on whoſe nature / Nurture can neuer ſticke :
- The act or process of encouraging the growth or development of something. 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.
verb nurtures · nurturing · nurtured · nouriture · nutriture
- To nourish or nurse. Look where he would, some heap of ruins afforded him rich promise of a working off; the whole town appeared to have been ploughed, and sown, and nurtured by most genial weather; and a goodly harvest was at hand.
- To encourage, especially the growth or development of something. 2009, UNESCO, The United Nations World Water Development Report – N° 3 - 2009 – Freshwater and International Law (the Interplay between Universal, Regional and Basin Perspectives), page 10, →ISBN The relationships between universal norms and specific norms nurture the development of international la
Similar: encourage, foster, feed, grow, culture, cultivate, promote, raise
