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nursing father

noun

  1. a biblical name for foster father
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Now is the time when the male assumes his important duties of nursing-father.

Hopefully we borrowed a buggy, and ourselves drove him to the house of that old squatter, nursing-father that we imagined him.

Flicoteaux has been nursing-father to many an illustrious name.

I have looked upon him ever since as a nursing-father to the Church.

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