misnurture
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
misnurture (third-person singular simple present misnurtures, present participle misnurturing, simple past and past participle misnurtured)
- (transitive) To nurture or train wrongly.
- 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volumes (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
- Manasseh was religiously bred under Hezekiah; Josiah was misnurtured under Amon: and yet Manasseh runs into absurd idolatries […]