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Literary usage of the term "nurture" spans a broad spectrum, serving both as a metaphor for the formative influences in human character and as a literal reference to care and upbringing. In discussions of the nature versus nurture debate, it is employed to express how environmental factors complement inherent qualities in shaping an individual’s essence, as seen in works where character formation is measured by both heredity and external influence [1, 2, 3, 4]. Its role in religious and moral instruction is equally prominent, with texts urging the "nurture and admonition of the Lord" as a crucial aspect of child-rearing and moral education [5, 6, 7, 8]. Moreover, theorists like John Dewey use the term to describe the intellectual and emotional atmosphere conducive to learning and growth, thereby extending its application to educational philosophy [9, 10, 11]. Even in classical literature, nurture appears as a nurturing force—whether cultivating leadership traits or characterizing the tender care required for both humans and nature [12, 13, 14].
  1. A classification, then, according to nature and nurture is a classification according to essence and character.
    — from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
  2. A man's character as well as his physique is a function of "nature" and of "nurture."
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  3. But though everyone does this, he does it according to his nature and nurture.
    — from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
  4. First of all we judge approximately a man’s nature and nurture and according to the impression he makes upon us, thence, his intellectual status.
    — from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
  5. It is our happy privilege to count on God for our children, and to "bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord."
    — from Notes on the book of Exodus by Charles Henry Mackintosh
  6. She had been brought up by the united teaching and example of both parents “in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”
    — from True to his ColoursThe Life that Wears Best by Theodore P. Wilson
  7. They, therefore, led him in early life to attend on the ministry of their worthy pastor, and trained him up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
    — from The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, June 1835 by Various
  8. And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
    — from The Bible, King James version, Book 49: Ephesians by Anonymous
  9. Even in present-day societies, it furnishes the basic nurture of even the most insistently schooled youth.
    — from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey
  10. Absorption, engrossment, full concern with subject matter for its own sake, nurture it.
    — from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey
  11. But the teacher's problem—as a teacher—does not reside in mastering a subject-matter, but in adjusting a subject-matter to the nurture of thought.
    — from How We Think by John Dewey
  12. Here was her armour, here her chariot; even now, if fate permit, the goddess strives to nurture it for queen of the nations.
    — from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
  13. It is true; thou art a person from the distant City Royal, And thy gentle nurture tallies with its reputation here.
    — from Plays of Old Japan: The 'No'
  14. [778-810] his grandsire's company, from his mother Ilia's nurture and Assaracus' blood.
    — from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

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