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- noun Plural form of
nurturer .
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Examples
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I studied cultural and social anthropology and the role of women as hearth keepers and nurturers is important in the success of a culture.
Get to Work????#$%*& Linda 2008
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States are termed slaves, are by us termed nurturers and paymasters, and those who are termed comrades and colleagues in other places, are by us called fathers and brothers.
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Every State has subjects and rulers, who in a democracy are called rulers, and in other States masters: but in our State they are called saviours and allies; and the subjects who in other States are termed slaves, are by us termed nurturers and paymasters, and those who are termed comrades and colleagues in other places, are by us called fathers and brothers.
The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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some are known as nurturers'' or believe in the innocence of their love-targets and some are enthralled by the control they wield over boyfriends behind bars.
Thestar.com - Home Page Rosie DiManno 2011
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Mesch is unsurprised: "I think that's an international phenomenon, that women are the caregivers and nurturers; they have more of those prosocial behaviors."
Kelly Kleiman: Whether Women are more Generous than Men, and Whether it Matters Kelly Kleiman 2010
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Mesch is unsurprised: "I think that's an international phenomenon, that women are the caregivers and nurturers; they have more of those prosocial behaviors."
Kelly Kleiman: Whether Women are more Generous than Men, and Whether it Matters Kelly Kleiman 2010
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Women are the nurturers, the sustenance-givers and the birth-givers.
Enid Borden: America's Moms: No Holiday From Hunger Enid Borden 2011
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On a certain day, standing in for one of my colleagues on his program, the topic for discussion circled around the need for fathers to get actively involved in their children's lives as opposed to the traditional segregated roles of mothers as nurturers and primary care givers and fathers relegated to the vault of providers or ATM machines as some insinuated.
Wana Udobang: To Any Bidder at All Wana Udobang 2012
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Women are the nurturers, the sustenance-givers and the birth-givers.
Enid Borden: America's Moms: No Holiday From Hunger Enid Borden 2011
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Mesch is unsurprised: "I think that's an international phenomenon, that women are the caregivers and nurturers; they have more of those prosocial behaviors."
Kelly Kleiman: Whether Women are more Generous than Men, and Whether it Matters Kelly Kleiman 2010
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