nouriture

nouriture (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of nurture.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     thy foster child , that from thy hand
     Did commun breath and nouriture receave

• “nouriture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.