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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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
When Mardas saw Gharib his reason fled, and he said to him, "O my son, I am under thy protection: so deliver me in right of my fosterage of thee!"
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
I was always a dependent thing, wanting fosterage and support.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas
John Loptson of Oddi, the grandson of Sæmund the Wise, took him into fosterage.
From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson
She is my sister by fosterage and this is how it came about.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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