The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nurture \Nur"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nurtured; p. pr. & vb. n. Nurturing.]
To feed; to nourish.
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To educate; to bring or train up.
He was nurtured where he had been born.
--Sir H. Wotton.Syn: To nourish; nurse; cherish; bring up; educate; tend.
Usage: To Nurture, Nourish, Cherish. Nourish denotes to supply with food, or cause to grow; as, to nourish a plant, to nourish rebellion. To nurture is to train up with a fostering care, like that of a mother; as, to nurture into strength; to nurture in sound principles. To cherish is to hold and treat as dear; as, to cherish hopes or affections.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of nurture English)
Usage examples of "nurturing".
In this delicate transition period from the womb to the world, babies are learning fundamental, if primitive, lessons about whether this new world is a responsive and nurturing one, about whether or not they have any effect on their environment, about how their needs are met.
Life dissolves into countless, consuming routines, nurturing acts and invisible chores: changing diapers, changing clothes, changing crib sheets, nursing, burping, cleaning spit-up, bathing, swaddling, rocking, soothing, singing, smiling, cooing, not to mention grocery shopping, cooking, keeping house, and doing the laundry.
CIRCLE Being with your baby, showing him the world, consistently comforting and nurturing him and structuring his life is a monumental job and achievement.
Many women find deep satisfaction in the nurturing role of motherhood.
Elyse, nurses well but Feeding and Nurturing gl regularly spits up afterward.
After a few minutes of Feeding and Nurturing 85 play see this as a successful attempt and stop, even if she has taken no milk.
During the first months of motherhood, breast feeding was a mutually nurturing experience for Maggie and her baby.
Life with a settled baby can be profoundly soothing, a harmonious circle of nurturing and affection between mother and child.
New motherhood is a time of life when many women report feeling an intense personal need for the nurturing power of their own mother.
The Absolute, the Brahman, the Stone, the Tincture, is a union of Shiva and Shakti, destruction and nurturing, the seed and the blood, the male and the female.
Whatever meager aspirations he had still been nurturing at that point were completely sundered when he had recognized his good Samaritan as being none other than Lord Harcourt.
As you can see, their nurturing attention rejuvenated me, and I have returned to England to claim my husband and my child.
But is it not also supposed to be and here I quote the handbook a safe and nurturing environment?
TP Tableaux, find Nurturing and Support and the Inner Resources to face your own unblinking sight, is what this goes on to say, a bit overheatedly maybe.
Ortho in there with some very real abandonment-issues who needs some nurturing and championing from the older Ortho instead of indulging in fantasies of omnipotence.