misnurture
English
Etymology
mis- + nurture
Verb
misnurture (third-person singular simple present misnurtures, present participle misnurturing, simple past and past participle misnurtured)
- (transitive) To nurture or train wrongly.
- Bishop Joseph Hall
- Manasseh was religiously bred under Hezekiah; Josiah was misnurtured under Amon: and yet Manasseh runs into absurd idolatries […]
- Bishop Joseph Hall