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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
nurse .
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Examples
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Mr. LONG: My love is as a fever longing still for that which longer nurseth a disease.
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Mr. LONG: My love is as a fever longing still for that which longer nurseth a disease.
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Mr. LONG: My love is as a fever longing still for that which longer nurseth a disease.
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I wot of Love what plans and what projects nurseth he!
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Feeding on that which longer nurseth the disease ...
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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A multitude of contemporaries "whet each other;" "thinking nurseth thinking;" and, in like manner, reading nurseth reading, and awakens a spirit of inquiry, untiring and exhaustless, among all concerned in pursuit and wholesome gratification.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 584. (Supplement to Vol. 20) Various
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Heaven, I am a better Christian man than thou and thy fellowship; for the _bruit_ goeth shrewdly out, that the most holy Order of the Temple of Zion nurseth not a few heretics within its bosom, and that Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert is of the number. ''
Ivanhoe 1892
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I wot of Love what plans and what projects nurseth he!
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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[Page 15] feedeth its mind with knowledge: if it is sick, she nurseth it with tender love; she watcheth over it when asleep; she forgetteth it not for a moment; she teacheth it how to be good; she rejoiceth daily in its growth.
Hymns in Prose for Children Anna Letitia 1781
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If husbands were willing that their wives should performe this dutie and would purswade and incourage them thereto, and afford them what helpes they could, where one mother now nurseth her childe, twenty would do it.
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