Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of nurture.

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Examples

  • Clawe not yo_u_r visage, tovch not yo_u_r hede w_i_t_h_ yo_u_r bare honde syttyng at _th_e table, ffor i_n_ norture suche thyng_is_ be rep_ro_veable.

    Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • That nowe is norture, sumtyme had ben full straunge.

    Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • And printeth chiefly in your_e_ memorie, For A principalle poynt of feire norture, Ye depraue no man absent especially; 157 Seint Austyn

    Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • That nowe is norture/so_m_tyme had be stra [= n] ge 441

    Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • _tha_t now ys norture, so_m_tyme hath be stravnge;

    Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867

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