nursing father

noun

a biblical name for foster father

Nearby words

nursery stakes, nurseryman, nurserywoman, nursing, nursing bottle, nursing father, nursing home, nursing mother, nursing officer, nursling, nurturance

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Examples from the Web for nursing father

Now is the time when the male assumes his important duties of nursing-father.
The Natural History of Cage Birds|J. M. Bechstein
I have looked upon him ever since as a nursing-father to the Church.
Henry Martyn Saint and Scholar|George Smith
Flicoteaux has been nursing-father to many an illustrious name.
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris|Honore de Balzac
Hopefully we borrowed a buggy, and ourselves drove him to the house of that old squatter, nursing-father that we imagined him.
Thirty Years in Australia|Ada Cambridge