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Definition of Nourishers
1. nourisher [n] - See also: nourisher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nourishers
Literary usage of Nourishers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer (1886)
"This may without violence be taken as an analogue of children's complaints,
especially teething, in which it is just the future nourishers of the organism ..."
2. Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788-1912 by S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, Clarke, S. J., publishing company (1912)
"The women of Cincinnati have always been of that quality, mothers, nourishers.
The history of the city with, of course, the sporadic exceptions of the very ..."
3. The Apocalypse Explained According to the Spiritual Sense: In which the by Emanuel Swedenborg (1890)
"... and "daughters" affections for good (see above, n. 166). And of these it said
that their "kings shall be thy nourishers, and princesses thy ..."
4. Arcana Cœlestia: The Heavenly Arcana Contained in the Holy Scriptures Or by Emanuel Swedenborg (1874)
"22, 23; where kings thy nourishers denote intelligence, and queens that gave suck
denote wisdom, which, it was shown above, is the wisdom of innocence. ..."
5. Popular Tales and Fictions: Their Migrations and Transformations by William Alexander Clouston (1887)
"There was a certain valiant knight which had only one son, the which he loved so
much, that he ordained for his keepers three nourishers (ie, nurses). ..."
6. Arcana cœlestia: or Heavenly mysteries contained in the sacred Scriptures by Emanuel Swedenborg (1866)
"And kings shall be thy nourishers, and their queens thy nurses," (xlix. 22, 23:)
where kings who are nourishers denote the insinuation of truth, ..."
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