Meanings
verbmisnurture (third-person singular simple present misnurtures, present participle misnurturing, simple past and past participle misnurtured)
present singular third person misnurtures · participle present misnurturing · participle past misnurtured · past misnurtured
- transitiveTo nurture or train wrongly.
Manasseh was religiously bred under Hezekiah; Josiah was misnurtured under Amon: and yet Manasseh runs into absurd idolatries […]
1612–1634, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=I to VIII), London, →OCLC
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