Definitions
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- verb archaic Second-person singular present simple form of
nurse
Etymologies
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nurse + -est
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Examples
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But if any ampler grace mask itself in these thy prayers, and thou dreamest of change in the whole movement of the war, idle is the hope thou nursest. '
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Thou dost give birth to countless forms and nursest them all from thy own bosom.
Life in a Thousand Worlds William Shuler Harris
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Never then may such wrath take hold of me as that thou nursest; thou brave to the hurting of others.
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882
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