nurtural
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of nurtural
First recorded in 1855–60; nurture ( def. ) + -al 1 ( def. )
Example Sentences
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By this we mean, of course, the natural as distinguished from the nurtural differences—to use the antithetic terms so usefully adapted by Sir Francis Galton from Shakespeare.
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The natural, as distinguished from the nurtural, distinctions at this period are probably much fewer than is supposed.
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