Definitions
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- adverb Nutritively; cherishingly.
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- adverb In a way that
provides nourishment orfood .
Etymologies
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Examples
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His flattery of his girl, too, restored her broken feeling of personal value; it permeated her nourishingly from the natural breath of him that it was.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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His flattery of his girl, too, restored her broken feeling of personal value; it permeated her nourishingly from the natural breath of him that it was.
One of Our Conquerors — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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His flattery of his girl, too, restored her broken feeling of personal value; it permeated her nourishingly from the natural breath of him that it was.
One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868
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I'm not sure my brain is properly wired to experience a sensation of joy this soul-nourishingly pure.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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When he grew stout-legged and self-reliant, he could be sent after the food, to carry the rent, and to sell papers, then she could work by the day, earn more, have better health, while what both brought home paid the rent of the top room back, of as bad a shamble as a self-respecting city would allow; kept them fed satisfyingly if not nourishingly, and allowed them to slip away many a nickel for the rainy day that she always explained would come.
Michael O'Halloran Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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