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† misˈnurtured, ppl. a. Sc. Obs. [mis-1 2.] Badly brought up; ill-bred; unmannerly. Hence misˈnurturedness.
a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 84 It was ane misnurtartnes [v.r. misnortourit] deid and he was bot ane knaif that did it. Ibid. 120 The scoittismen growis nevir misnorturit nor dissobedient to thair governouris. 1616Rollock Lect. xxxv. 343 This homelines will not be with misnourturnesse [sic: ? misprint], and with an opinion of paritie. 1637Rutherford Lett. (1664) i. xxvii. 62 That which idle on-waiting cannot doe, misnurtured crying and knocking will doe. |