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unnurtured

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Etymology

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    From un- + nurtured.

    Adjective

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    unnurtured (not comparable)

    1. That has not been nurtured.
      • 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Remonstrance of the Creek Indians, page 76:
        Dark are their brows, and wild they rove
        Unnurtur'd o'er their native earth,
        Yet deep their rugged bosoms love
        Their land of birth.