All 10 Uses of
cultivate
in
The American
- 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 1
- I shall be happy to make their acquaintance; I want to cultivate society.†
Chpt 2
- 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 *
- I say simply that Madame de Cintre is a great white doll of a woman, who cultivates quiet haughtiness.†
Chpt 3
- 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 4
- 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 5
- 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 5
- He didn't advise me to cultivate it; he said that as we grew up it always came of itself.†
Chpt 7
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