Misnurture

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To nurture or train wrongly. transitive

    "Manasseh was religiously bred under Hezekiah; Josiah was misnurtured under Amon: and yet Manasseh runs into absurd idolatries […]"

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"Manasseh was religiously bred under Hezekiah; Josiah was misnurtured under Amon: and yet Manasseh runs into absurd idolatries […]"

Etymology

From mis- + nurture.

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