Nurture vs Nursle - What's the difference?
nurture | nursle |
The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training.
That which nourishes; food; diet.
The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual; see also nature.
* Milton
To nourish or nurse.
(figuratively, by extension) To encourage, especially the growth or development of something.
* 2009 , UNESCO, The United Nations World Water Development Report – N° 3 - 2009 – Freshwater and International Law (the Interplay between Universal, Regional and Basin Perspectives) , page 10, ISBN 9231041363
To nurture, train, raise (up) (a person).
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vi:
*:the late borne childe [...] till to ryper yeares he gan aspire, / He noursled vp in life and manners wilde [...].
As verbs the difference between nurture and nursle
is that nurture is to nourish or nurse while nursle is to nurture, train, raise (up) (a person).As a noun nurture
is the act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training.nurture
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- (Spenser)
- A man neither by nature nor by nurture wise.
Verb
(nurtur)- The relationships between universal norms and specific norms nurture the development of international law.
