All 10 Uses of
cultivate
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- Isabel wondered at her; she had never had so directly presented to her nose the white flower of cultivated sweetness.†
Chpt 30 *
- One must choose a corner and cultivate that.†
Chpt 34
- Mr. Osmond's simply a very lonely, a very cultivated and a very honest man—he's not a prodigious proprietor."†
Chpt 34
- She had her own ideas; she had of old exposed a great many of them to Isabel, who knew also that under an appearance of extreme self-control her highly-cultivated friend concealed a rich sensibility.†
Chpt 40
- Was she to cultivate the advantage she possessed in order to make him commit himself to Pansy, knowing he would do so for her sake and not for the small creature's own—was this the service her husband had asked of her?†
Chpt 42
- She asked herself with dismay whether Lord Warburton were pretending to be in love with Pansy in order to cultivate another satisfaction and what might be called other chances.†
Chpt 42
- A mind more ingenious, more pliant, more cultivated, more trained to admirable exercises, she had not encountered; and it was this exquisite instrument she had now to reckon with.†
Chpt 42
- He cultivated this art in order to deceive himself, but it was others that he deceived first.†
Chpt 48
- He cultivated it, moreover, with very limited success; of which there could be no better proof than the deep, dumb irritation that reigned in his soul when he heard Osmond speak of his wife's feelings as if he were commissioned to answer for them.†
Chpt 48
- She had desired a large acquaintance with human life, and in spite of her having flattered herself that she cultivated it with some success this elementary privilege had been denied her.†
Chpt 49
Definition:
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(cultivate) enhance growth or developmentin various senses, including:
- to grow crops or prepare land for them
- enhance a relationship -- especially for a purpose
- develop discernment (better recognition of differences) in taste or judgment
- to grow a culture in a petri dish