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/kˌəltɪvˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Cultivation n.

The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.

Bestowal of time or attention for self-improvement or for the benefit of others; fostering care.

The state of being cultivated; advancement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition; refinement; culture. "Italy... was but imperfectly reduced to cultivation before the irruption of the barbarians."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cultivation" Quotes from Famous Books

... than this apparently impenetrable and yet we had ridden but a short distance before we realized that we were in fact passing through cultivated land. It was, again, only a difference in terms. Native cultivation in this district rarely consists of clearing land and planting crops in due order, but in leaving the forest proper as it is, and in planting foodstuffs haphazard wherever a tiny space can be made for even three hills of corn or a single banana. ...

— The Land of Footprints • Stewart Edward White

... in general, but these chiefly in connection with the names of those distinguished in the cultivation of them. ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... there are ten millions of free citizens between Pittsburg and Fort Union, who claim the course and mouth of the Mississippi as having been ceded to them by France. It is from us that they hold their title and their possession. They have a right of sixty years, a right consecrated by labors and cultivation, a right which they have received from a contract, and, better still, from nature, and ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... festive board, a gentleman of the ton and a melodist of great powers and of exquisite taste; he had long striven to enhance the character of our music; he was the master of English song, but he felt, from his close cultivation of music and his knowledge of the genius of his countrymen, that much was wanting, and that more could be accomplished, and he sought out, while in Europe, an Italian troupe, which his persuasive eloquence and the liberal spirit of Price led to ...

— As I Remember - Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century • Marian Gouverneur

... this imputation altogether unjust; for, as they were following out the proper idea of a University, of course they suffered more or less from the moral malady incident to such a pursuit. The very object of such great institutions lies in the cultivation of the mind and the spread of knowledge: if this object, as all human objects, has its dangers at all times, much more would these exist in the case of men, who were engaged in a work of reformation, and ...

— Apologia Pro Vita Sua • John Henry Cardinal Newman

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