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unfostered

  • a word derived from fostered.
    fostered
    adjective
    promoted or cultivated.

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Where pitying gray the pitiless eyes of Death Blight no slight bud unfostered, I have thought; Deep, lily-deep, pearl-pale daturas, fraught With dewy fragrance like an angel's breath.

From Days and Dreams Poems by Madison J. Cawein

Assuming that sufficient exuberance will come, unfostered by morality, they shut it out from their charge, make duty to consist in checking instinct, and devote themselves to pruning the sprouting man.

From The Nature of Goodness by George Herbert Palmer

The evil in him was unchecked, the good unfostered, by any training hand.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 by Various

It seeks a deeper silence still; It folds itself around with peace, Where thoughts alike of good or ill In quietness unfostered cease.

From The Nuts of Knowledge Lyrical Poems Old and New by George William Russell

It seeks a deeper silence still;         It folds itself around with peace, Where thoughts alike of good or ill         In quietness unfostered, cease.

From AE in the Irish Theosophist by George William Russell