All 10 Uses
cultivate
in
The American, by Henry James
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- The cultivation of the fine arts appeared to necessitate, to her mind, a great deal of byplay, a great standing off with folded arms and head drooping from side to side, stroking of a dimpled chin with a dimpled hand, sighing and frowning and patting of the foot, fumbling in disordered tresses for wandering hair-pins.†
Chpt 1cultivation = development, growth, or preparation for growing crops
- I shall be happy to make their acquaintance; I want to cultivate society.†
Chpt 2cultivate = develop, grow, or prepare for growing crops
- The truth is that circumstances had done much to cultivate in Mrs. Tristram a marked tendency to irony.†
Chpt 3
- I am not cultivated, I am not even educated; I know nothing about history, or art, or foreign tongues, or any other learned matters.†
Chpt 3 *cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
- I say simply that Madame de Cintre is a great white doll of a woman, who cultivates quiet haughtiness.†
Chpt 3cultivates = develops, grows, or prepares for growing crops
- The papa of Mademoiselle Noemie, however, had apparently on this occasion been vigorously indoctrinated, and he showed a certain tremulous eagerness to cultivate unexpected opportunities.†
Chpt 4cultivate = develop, grow, or prepare for growing crops
- Upon this M. Nioche's accent became more finely trenchant than ever, he offered to read extracts from Lamartine, and he protested that, although he did endeavor according to his feeble lights to cultivate refinement of diction, monsieur, if he wanted the real thing, should go to the Theatre Francais.†
Chpt 4
- He had a way of damning people without farther appeal, or of pronouncing them capital company in the face of uncomfortable symptoms, which seemed unworthy of a man whose conscience had been properly cultivated.†
Chpt 5cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
- He remembered Mr. Babcock and his desire to form conclusions, and he remembered also that he had profited very little by his friend's exhortation to cultivate the same respectable habit.†
Chpt 5cultivate = develop, grow, or prepare for growing crops
- He didn't advise me to cultivate it; he said that as we grew up it always came of itself.†
Chpt 7
Definitions:
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(1)
(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
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) The word form cultivator is commonly used to describe a machine used to prepare soil for growing crops.