Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The property of being nutritive.
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- noun the quality of being nourishing and promoting healthy growth
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Examples
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Next, food was manufactured to produce a still greater variety, to increase the flavour, or less frequently to produce an imagined greater digestibility or nutritiveness.
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan
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In respect of nutritiveness, it deserves a preference over all the pure starches on account of the proteine compounds it contains.
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As Herbert Spencer has pointed out, the degree of human energy, physical or intellectual, must depend upon the nutritiveness of food; and history shows that the well-fed races have been the energetic and the dominant.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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If the food be eaten with a relish, and tolerated by the stomach, its digestibility will not, except in extreme cases, affect in a very sensible degree its nutritiveness.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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To fulfil the requirement, the quantity must be increased as the nutritiveness is diminished.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861
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If we compare different kinds of animals, or different races of men, or the same animals or men when differently fed, we find still more distinct proof that _the degree of energy essentially depends on the nutritiveness of the food_.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861
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Are children doomed to a monotonous dietary, or a dietary that is deficient in nutritiveness?
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861
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The inference is, then, that they should have a diet which combines, as much as possible, nutritiveness and digestibility.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861
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Rational Review 2009
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