nourish
verb (used with object)
to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
nourisher
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a word derived from
nourish.
Example Sentences
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The animal is honoured as a selfless nourisher, and the embodiment of the Hindu principle of non-violence.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2016
The announced theme was Woman, the supreme nourisher of mankind.
From Time Magazine Archive
In many ways Medici was the prototype of the men who created Western civilization, both the embodiment of its ideals and the nourisher of its institutions.
From Time Magazine Archive
But his one great vice, the vice of doubt, the vice of hopelessness, has made him, as a nourisher of the spirit, among the least profitable as a writer.
From Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy by Ivan Panin
"The kindliest symptom, yet the most alarming crisis in the ticklish state of youth; the nourisher and destroyer of hopeful wits; * * * the servitude above freedom; the gentle mind's religion; the liberal superstition."
From Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
