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Bringing up   /brˈɪŋɪŋ əp/   Listen
Bringing up

noun
1.
Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community.  Synonyms: breeding, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing.






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... out at a fox-trot, continuing their southwesterly direction. It was an unmarked course from the beginning, leading them steadily down into the Mogollon range, and, as before, Johnson was occupying the lead, with Jim next behind, and Glover bringing up the rear. And, as on the first leg of the journey, all rode ...
— Bred of the Desert - A Horse and a Romance • Marcus Horton

... a very English bringing up, and now that he is more than two years old and can talk, he insists on talking English with volubility and understanding ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CL, April 26, 1916 • Various

... eye-witness of their Cookeries as well, as a Peruser of their Manuscripts, and Printed Authors whatsoever I found good in them, I have inserted in this Volume. I do acknowledg my self not to be a little beholding to the Italian and Spanish Treatises; though without my fosterage, and bringing up under the Generosities and Bounties of my Noble Patrons and Masters, I could never have arrived to this Experience. To be confined and limited to the narrowness of a Purse, is to want the Materials from which the Artist must gain his knowledge. Those Honourable ...
— The accomplisht cook - or, The art & mystery of cookery • Robert May

... any one of them enjoyed, but—his father died before he was two years old, and his mother, grandfather, and grandmother died when he was two years old, and he and his sister, four years old, went to live with his oldest uncle, Timothy Edwards, who was only twenty. This uncle was also bringing up two younger brothers aged eight and thirteen, and three young sisters. While Timothy Edwards made an eminently worthy citizen and reared a family of noble sons and daughters, he was not prepared at nineteen to support so many younger ...
— Jukes-Edwards - A Study in Education and Heredity • A. E. Winship

... of righteousness Rose, a darkened world to bless, Bringing up from mortal night Immortality ...
— Hymns for Christian Devotion - Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination • J.G. Adams


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