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Synonyms for nurturing
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : nur-cher |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈnɜr tʃər |
Définition of nurturing
Origin :- "to feed or nourish," early 15c., from nurture (n.). Related: Nurtured; nurturing.
- noun maintenance
- What mattered now was planting and nurturing civilization on Tanith.
- Extract from : « Space Viking » by Henry Beam Piper
- Had I been instrumental in nurturing those flowers of the heart?
- Extract from : « The Quadroon » by Mayne Reid
- Perhaps it is just as well, for we are novices at nurturing even yet!
- Extract from : « Introduction to the Science of Sociology » by Robert E. Park
- Yes, dear brother, by nurturing this love you do her a worse evil than you know of.
- Extract from : « Penshurst Castle » by Emma Marshall
- A copse is a plot of ground, proportioned off for the purpose of nurturing wood.
- Extract from : « Woodland Gleanings » by Charles Tilt
- If I be not yet proved in the fire, make me some nurturing ploughshare, or the Sword of victory!
- Extract from : « Seraphita » by Honore de Balzac
- Meantime Ned Buntline had been nurturing an ambitious project.
- Extract from : « Last of the Great Scouts » by Helen Cody Wetmore
- Youth, its nurturing and developing, has become the passion of the day.
- Extract from : « The Business of Being a Woman » by Ida M. Tarbell
- Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process.
- Extract from : « Democracy and Education » by John Dewey
- So Bella was fain to turn outward in search of nurturing matter whereon to feed her humanness.
- Extract from : « I, Mary MacLane » by Mary MacLane
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