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Webster 1913 Edition


Misnurture

Mis-nur′ture

(?; 135)
,
Verb.
T.
To nurture or train wrongly;
as, to
misnurture
children
.
Bp. Hall.

Definition 2024


misnurture

misnurture

English

Verb

misnurture (third-person singular simple present misnurtures, present participle misnurturing, simple past and past participle misnurtured)

  1. (transitive) To nurture or train wrongly.
    • Bishop Joseph Hall
      Manasseh was religiously bred under Hezekiah; Josiah was misnurtured under Amon: and yet Manasseh runs into absurd idolatries []