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ˈfathering, vbl. n.
[f. father v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. father; an instance of this.
1549Coverdale Erasm. Par. Rom. i. 1 A fauourable and gentle fatherying. Ibid. 6 Ye Romaines are..by adopcion & fatheryng, called all to the..Surname of Iesus Christe. 1894‘G. Egerton’ Discords 60 The want-wit inconsistency that forgives the man that begat the brat and treats with pitiless scorn the helpless result of his fathering. 1894Athenæum 24 Feb. 238/3 The fathering of bairns. 1894G. du Maurier Trilby III. vii. 19 Taffy..was equal to any burden or responsibility all this instinctive young fathering might involve. 1903Daily Chron. 16 Oct. 3/4 There was too much fathering. The settlers were fathered by their priests, fathered by their King. 1920H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. 122 The divine fathering and birth of Amenophis III. 1969J. Rowe Yours by Choice (rev. ed.) vii. 54 Some people..look upon the fathering of an out-of-wedlock child as the ‘wild oats’ normally sown by young men about town. |