fosterage
Americannoun
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the act of fostering or rearing another's child as one's own.
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the condition of being a foster child.
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an act of promoting or encouraging.
The board will undertake the fosterage of our new project.
noun
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the act of caring for or bringing up a foster child
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the condition or state of being a foster child
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the act of encouraging or promoting
Etymology
Origin of fosterage
Example Sentences
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A child in fosterage was reared and educated suitably for the position it was destined to fill in life.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
O my son, by the rights of my fosterage and by my long service to thee, I conjure thee pardon this young lady, for indeed she hath done nothing deserving such doom.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
If thou wouldst nurse him till he comes to the measure of youth, then whatsoever woman saw thee should envy thee; such gifts of fosterage would my mother give thee.”
From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew
There was fosterage for affection, for payment and for a literary education.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
The Celtic custom of fosterage is overlooked, and Merlin gives the child to Anton, not as the customary dalt, but to preserve the babe from danger.
From Alfred Tennyson by Lang, Andrew
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