All 27 Uses
cultivate
in
The Portrait of a Lady
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- There was the danger of the noted "thinness"—which was to be averted, tooth and nail, by cultivation of the lively.†
Chpt Pref. *cultivation = development, growth, or preparation for growing crops
- It was perhaps his want of imagination and of what is called the historic consciousness; but to many of the impressions usually made by English life upon the cultivated stranger his sense was completely closed.†
Chpt 5cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
- It was almost as unnecessary to cultivate doubt of one's self as to cultivate doubt of one's best friend: one should try to be one's own best friend and to give one's self, in this manner, distinguished company.†
Chpt 6cultivate = develop, grow, or prepare for growing crops
- It was almost as unnecessary to cultivate doubt of one's self as to cultivate doubt of one's best friend: one should try to be one's own best friend and to give one's self, in this manner, distinguished company.†
Chpt 6
- Her gouty uncle received very little company, and Mrs. Touchett, not having cultivated relations with her husband's neighbours, was not warranted in expecting visits from them.†
Chpt 7cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
- There was no mistake at least about his being very intelligent and cultivated and knowing almost everything in the world.†
Chpt 8
- Well, I advise you to cultivate one.†
Chpt 10cultivate = develop, grow, or prepare for growing crops
- There was no doubt she had great merits—she was charming, sympathetic, intelligent, cultivated.†
Chpt 19cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
- To be so cultivated and civilised, so wise and so easy, and still make so light of it—that was really to be a great lady, especially when one so carried and presented one's self.†
Chpt 19
- 'He's very cultivated,' they say: 'he has a very pretty collection of old snuff-boxes.'†
Chpt 19
- He was a very gentle and gracious youth, with what are called cultivated tastes—an acquaintance with old china, with good wine, with the bindings of books, with the Almanach de Gotha, with the best shops, the best hotels, the hours of railway-trains.†
Chpt 20
- He had been deeply affected—this she believed, and she was still capable of deriving pleasure from the belief; but it was absurd that a man both so intelligent and so honourably dealt with should cultivate a scar out of proportion to any wound.†
Chpt 21cultivate = develop, grow, or prepare for growing crops
- Her father followed her to the open door, stood a moment watching her, and then came back, but remained standing, or rather strolling to and fro, as if to cultivate a sense of freedom which in another attitude might be wanting.†
Chpt 22
- He was easily bored, too easily, and dull people always put him out; but a quick and cultivated girl like Isabel would give him a stimulus which was too absent from his life.†
Chpt 23cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
- I've never cultivated his society, and he apparently has never found mine indispensable to his happiness.†
Chpt 23
- It made one idle and dilettantish and second-rate; it had no discipline for the character, didn't cultivate in you, otherwise expressed, the successful social and other "cheek" that flourished in Paris and London.†
Chpt 24cultivate = develop, grow, or prepare for growing crops
- —of a thin and those of a rich association; of a lonely, studious life in a lovely land; of an old sorrow that sometimes ached to-day; of a feeling of pride that was perhaps exaggerated, but that had an element of nobleness; of a care for beauty and perfection so natural and so cultivated together that the career appeared to stretch beneath it in the disposed vistas and with the ranges of steps and terraces and fountains of a formal Italian garden—allowing only for arid places freshened by the natural dews of a quaint half-anxious, half-helpless fatherhood.†
Chpt 26cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
- 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 34cultivate = develop, grow, or prepare for growing crops
- Mr. Osmond's simply a very lonely, a very cultivated and a very honest man—he's not a prodigious proprietor.†
Chpt 34cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
- 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 42cultivate = develop, grow, or prepare for growing crops
- 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 42cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
- 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
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.