nurture
verb (used with object)
to feed and protect.
unnurtured
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a word derived from
nurture.
Example Sentences
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It is a gorgeous and many-hued garment, but that which it clothes and glorifies is a poor and unnurtured thing.
From Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries by Lawrence Gilman
We are a race of executioners, but we are not the unnurtured herd that people fancy.
From The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons by James Fenimore Cooper
In this day of emphasis on vocational training we must remember there is a part of life unfed, unnurtured, and unexercised by industrial education.
From A Study of Fairy Tales by Laura F. Kready
The summons of the unnurtured squatter brought an immediate accession to their party.
From The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper
Are we to be classed with the heathen in knowledge, or to be accounted as the unnurtured men who are known once to have roamed through these forests in quest of their game?
From The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper
