Definition of "cultivating" []

• Present participle of cultivate. (verb)

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• "Whereas wisdom comes through humility, it may actually help, in cultivating intelligence, to have a mistakenly high opinion of your abilities"
• "But, O'Donnell's campaign to date suggests she is more interested in cultivating her image as a celebrity (of sorts) than doing the sorts of things a Republican candidate running in a Democratic-tilting state would have to do to win."
• ""Three Acres and Liberty," and read to them of a man who walked six hundred and fifty miles a year in cultivating, by old-fashioned methods, twenty acres, from which he harvested three thousand bushels of poor potatoes; and of another man, a"