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单词 nurturing
释义 I. ˈnurturing, vbl. n.
[f. nurture v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb, in various senses.
1535Coverdale Job xxxvi. 10 He with punyshinge and nurturinge off them.., warneth them to leaue of from their wickednesse.1578Chr. Prayers, Priv. Pr. (Parker Soc.) 534 We acknowledge thy fatherly nurturing of us.1629Wadsworth Pilgr. vii. 74 The Iesuites haue a Colledge..for the nurturing of their young Iesuites.1843Lytton Last Bar. iv. v, Well-a-day, my lord, my nurturing was somewhat neglected in the province.
II. ˈnurturing, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That nurtures.
1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 664 Blood, being the nurturing principle of the flesh.1883Swinburne Cent. Roundels 47 Each mother's nurturing breast Feeds a flower of bliss.
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