nurture

Definition

The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care

Etymology

From Middle English norture, noriture, from Old French norriture, norreture, from Late Latin nutritura (“nourishment”), from Latin nutrire (“to nourish”).

Example Sentences

• "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."