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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Confronted with these unnurtured spirits, the patron shook in every limb, for, between anger and abject fear, his self-command had by this time absolutely deserted him.
From The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons by James Fenimore Cooper
But while the sons were searching among their stores, for something substantial to appease their hunger, and the younger fry were wrangling about their simple dishes, the parents of the unnurtured family were differently employed.
From The Prairie 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
Hardy, loose, in some respects, and unnurtured as he was in others, the man had been steadily my friend.
From Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale by James Fenimore Cooper
Such colloquies have occupied many a pair of pale-faced weavers, whose unnurtured souls have been like young winged things, fluttering forsaken in the twilight.
From Silas Marner by George Eliot
