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fosterage

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Definitions

  1. helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

Word origin

From foster + -age.

Used in a sentence

  • There still remains in the Islands, though it is passing fast away, the custom of fosterage. A Laird, a man of wealth and eminence, sends his child, either male or female, to a tacksman, or tenant, to be fostered.
  • In those animals in which the system of fosterage and protection has not been developed a great number of fertilized ova are produced, only a few of which come to maturity.

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