Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Engaged in the processes of cultivation; agricultural.
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- verb Present participle of
cultivate .
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Examples
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But, O'Donnell's campaign to date suggests she is more interested in cultivating her image as a celebrity (of sorts) than doing the sorts of things a Republican candidate running in a Democratic-tilting state would have to do to win.
Fast Fix: Christine O'Donnell=celebritician Chris Cillizza 2010
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"Three Acres and Liberty," and read to them of a man who walked six hundred and fifty miles a year in cultivating, by old-fashioned methods, twenty acres, from which he harvested three thousand bushels of poor potatoes; and of another man, a
CHAPTER XVIII 2010
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Whereas wisdom comes through humility, it may actually help, in cultivating intelligence, to have a mistakenly high opinion of your abilities
Paul Graham on Many Subjects, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Every hour of the time between the school room and the altar ought to be used by her in cultivating a spirit of usefulness, kindness and devotion to relatives and friends, which will enable her to display that constant self-sacrifice, and thoughtfulness which marriage demands daily of both husband and wife.
Between the School Room and the Altar, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) 2008
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Strenuous bookishness or intellectual pretensions were seen as eccentric, if not a worrying anomaly in cultivating a "muscular Christian."
A study of a blogger's study of Presidential reading habits 2008
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Every hour of the time between the school room and the altar ought to be used by her in cultivating a spirit of usefulness, kindness and devotion to relatives and friends, which will enable her to display that constant self-sacrifice, and thoughtfulness which marriage demands daily of both husband and wife.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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There are lands made barren by long-term cultivating of the toxic products that the biotech companies, Monsanto, Syngenta et al., hype up as life savers.
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In fact, if one wants to launch a criticism of music blogs, it seems to me that the issue is not how poorly written or uninsightful they are (two qualities I pride myself in cultivating), but how crappy they look.
Let's begin, again 2008
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In fact, if one wants to launch a criticism of music blogs, it seems to me that the issue is not how poorly written or uninsightful they are (two qualities I pride myself in cultivating), but how crappy they look.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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Her nursing of the sick, her care for them in cultivating her herb medicinal garden, her love of beauty in cultivating her rose garden, and her humble devotion to others set Miss Mattie Lou apart from those in her own family and also from those in the town.
Miss Mattie Lou: A Follower of Christ Linda 2007
frogapplause commented on the word cultivating
... while it's perfectly all right for men to "masturbate," women doing approximately the same thing are now "cultivating" themselves, according to the good doctor. Article here.
May 11, 2010