nursing father

noun

a biblical name for foster father

When do you capitalize words like “mother,” “father,” “grandmother,” and “grandfather” when writing about them?

You should capitalize these when referring to your own relatives: Hello, Mother. A good rule to follow is to capitalize them if they are used as proper nouns. If used as common nouns, don’t capitalize as in: We honor all mothers in May. In other words, capitalize words such as “Mother,” “Father,” “Grandmother,” “Grandfather,” “Son,” “Daughter,” and “Sis” when they are used in place of …

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Examples from the Web for nursing father

Historical Examples of nursing father

Flicoteaux has been nursing-father to many an illustrious name.
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
Honore de Balzac
I have looked upon him ever since as a nursing-father to the Church.
Henry Martyn Saint and Scholar
George Smith
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
Now is the time when the male assumes his important duties of nursing-father.
The Natural History of Cage Birds
J. M. Bechstein