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NURSED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of an infant) breast-fed
Synonyms:
nursed; suckled
Classified under:
Similar:
breast-fed ((of an infant) fed milk from the mother's breast)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb nurse
Context examples:
He begged to be shewn the house which his father had lived in so long, and which had been the home of his father's father; and on recollecting that an old woman who had nursed him was still living, walked in quest of her cottage from one end of the street to the other; and though in some points of pursuit or observation there was no positive merit, they shewed, altogether, a good-will towards Highbury in general, which must be very like a merit to those he was with.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I nursed them all three.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She has nursed me by day and a hired nurse has looked after me by night, for in my mad fits I was capable of anything.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I took the little baby in my arms when it was awake, and nursed it lovingly.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She nursed Madame Frankenstein, my aunt, in her last illness, with the greatest affection and care and afterwards attended her own mother during a tedious illness, in a manner that excited the admiration of all who knew her, after which she again lived in my uncle’s house, where she was beloved by all the family.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Just recollect the good aunts who have not only lectured and fussed, but nursed and petted, too often without thanks, the scrapes they have helped you out of, the tips they have given you from their small store, the stitches the patient old fingers have set for you, the steps the willing old feet have taken, and gratefully pay the dear old ladies the little attentions that women love to receive as long as they live.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
She recalled her past kindness—the kindness, the affection of sixteen years—how she had taught and how she had played with her from five years old—how she had devoted all her powers to attach and amuse her in health—and how nursed her through the various illnesses of childhood.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Safie nursed her with the most devoted affection, but the poor girl died, and the Arabian was left alone, unacquainted with the language of the country and utterly ignorant of the customs of the world.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
She only said, Thank you, deary, but something in her face made the girls change the subject, and talk as cheerfully as they could about Mr. Brooke's kindness, the prospect of a fine day tomorrow, and the happy times they would have when Father came home to be nursed.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The evening before this great event (for it was a very great event that Mr. Woodhouse should dine out, on the 24th of December) had been spent by Harriet at Hartfield, and she had gone home so much indisposed with a cold, that, but for her own earnest wish of being nursed by Mrs. Goddard, Emma could not have allowed her to leave the house.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
