Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Promoting strength or growth; nutritious: as, a nourishing diet.
- Synonyms Strengthening, invigorating, wholesome.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Promoting growth; nutritious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That provides
nourishment ;nutritious
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or providing nourishment
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Examples
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Ram Dass developed a deeper understanding of the love parents feel for their children and began to see that personal and soul love are not mutually exclusive but can coexist in nourishing ways.
Sara Davidson: Ram Dass Has a Son! But Has This Revelation Changed His Conception of Love? Sara Davidson 2010
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Ram Dass developed a deeper understanding of the love parents feel for their children and began to see that personal and soul love are not mutually exclusive but can coexist in nourishing ways.
Sara Davidson: Ram Dass Has a Son! But Has This Revelation Changed His Conception of Love? Sara Davidson 2010
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Ram Dass developed a deeper understanding of the love parents feel for their children and began to see that personal and soul love are not mutually exclusive but can coexist in nourishing ways.
Sara Davidson: Ram Dass Has a Son! But Has This Revelation Changed His Conception of Love? Sara Davidson 2010
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Downstairs the servants ate what was called "nourishing" food: herrings and cod and stews and milk puddings.
What the Help Really Saw Elizabeth Lowry 2012
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Victoria's Secret takes a similar role in nourishing talent to stardom in the way that Hollywood studios did with actresses back in the 1930s and '40s.
The World's Top-Earning Models Kiri Blakeley 2007
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Nothing you call nourishing will stay on my stomach.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Nothing you call nourishing will stay on my stomach.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 Samuel Richardson 1725
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nourishing obscurity: [baby factory] what's in a name nourishing obscurity: [baby factory] what's in a name
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nourishing obscurity: [nice people] what's in a name nourishing obscurity: [nice people] what's in a name
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While Bascomb had been delivering his pithy address, the officer in armour had also been haranguing his troops with much gesticulation and sword nourishing, which he had wound up with a command to charge, himself leading the attack upon the little band of English seamen wedged, so to speak, in the throat of the narrow street.
Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess Harry Collingwood 1886
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