nourishment

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nourishment nour·ish·ment (nûr'ĭsh-mənt, nŭr'-)
n.
Something that nourishes; food.

Example sentences

What he offers is not medicine but food-the nourishment of sane and delightful

art.

Plankton are literally at the bottom of the food chain, a source of nourishment

for virtually every animal in the sea.

The language speaks of battles with and fears of food, and the blaming of one's

own body when the mind seeks nourishment.

In addition to being a source of nourishment for local people, the lake's fish

are also exported as food and as aquarium pets.

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Matching Quote

"With the present wage conditions there are thousands of young women who are living in a state of semi-starvation and they are always surrounded by the most terrible temptation. Oh, I know that some of [the] greatest reformers insist that a girl's virtue is not affected by under-nourishment, disease and nervous collapse; but if these well housed, well fed, well dressed people were put in a dirty, ugly room, if their clothes did not protect them from the cold, if their stomachs were never filled, would not even the staunchest lose some of her self-respect when looking forward to an old age? It is only a matter of wonder to me that so many girls keep clean and decent through it all."

-Cora Anderson