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nourish
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[ verb ] (food) provide with nourishment
Examples "We sustained ourselves on bread and water" "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children" Used in print (James J. Maguire, "A Family Affair"...)The fact that the group orientation and group identification are_founded on supernatural principles and nourished by the well-springs of devotion simply give them a deeper and more satisfying dimension . (The Christian Science Monitor,...)To his Harvard colleague , Josiah_Royce , whose philosophic position differed radically from his own , James could write , `` Different as our minds are , yours has nourished mine , as no other social influence ever has , and in converse with you I have always felt that my life was being lived importantly '' . (Kenneth Scott Latourette, Christianity in a Revolutiona...)With its zeal for liberty and its dependence on God it breathed the spirit which had been nourished on the Evangelical revivals . (Charles Glicksberg, "Sex in Contemporary Literature"...)The professed mission of_this disaffiliated generation is to find a new way_of_life which they can express in poetry and fiction , but what they produce is unfortunately disordered , nourished solely on the hysteria of negation . Related terms |
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