fosteragen.
/ˈfɒst(ə)rɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈfɔstərɪdʒ/, /ˈfɑstərɪdʒ/ 1.
a. The action, also the office or charge, of fostering or bringing up (another's child).
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > parenthood > [noun] > action of fostering
fosterage1614
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. xii. §3. 214 Some one or other adioyning to this Lake had the charge and fosteridge of this child.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iv, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 71 Thou art already envied of many of our tribe, for having had the fosterage of the young Chief.
1882 J. Payne 1001 Nights I. 161 For the sake of my fosterage of thee..spare this young lady.
b. The condition of being a foster-child.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [noun] > condition of foster-child
fostership1861
fosterage1867
1867 C. H. Pearson Hist. Eng. I. 114 It was rather a sort of clientship or fosterage.
1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 157 Placed upon a footing with the foster-child during his fosterage.
2. The custom of putting (a child) under the care of a foster-mother; esp. the now obsolete custom amongst the Irish and Scottish nobility of giving over their children to a tenant to be nursed and brought up.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > parenthood > [noun] > action of fostering > custom of fostering
fosteringa1599
fosterage1775
1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 313 There still remains in the Islands, though it is passing fast away, the custom of fosterage.
1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. viii. 241 This was Fosterage, the giving and taking of children for nurture.
1893 P. W. Joyce Short Hist. Ireland 85 One of the leading features of Irish social life was fosterage.
3. The action of encouraging or helping forward.
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the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > furtherance > [noun]
furtheringc1000
advancementc1325
nourishingc1325
speedingc1400
promotion1425
vauncingc1426
furtherancec1440
expedition1445
preferment1454
further1526
profection1533
towardliness1553
maturation1584
comforting1605
forwarding1635
advance1642
promotement1661
forwardness1741
fosterage1816
1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) I. 125 A branch of human morals so important; one which calls for the statesman's fosterage, the patriot's countenance.
1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 31 Under her fosterage our evil habits throve apace.
1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 848 Its [a conspiracy's] fosterage and management Richmond described very graphically.
1867 Q. Rev. Apr. 430 The scope afforded by one and all to the fosterage of the imaginative quality.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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