misnurture

Etymology

From mis- + nurture.

misnurture means To nurture or train wrongly. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

verb

To nurture or train wrongly.“Manasseh was religiously bred under Hezekiah; Josiah was misnurtured under Amon: and yet Manasseh runs into absurd idolatries […]”