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Fostering   /fˈɑstərɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Foster  v. t.  (past & past part. fostered, pres. part. fostering)  
1.
To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up. "Some say that ravens foster forlorn children."
2.
To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.


Foster  v. i.  To be nourished or trained up together. (Obs.)





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"Fostering" Quotes from Famous Books



... join with them in promoting a Bill against the fanatics. Thus play they on both hands.... Wherefore it were happy that he had neither Round-Head nor Cavalier in the House, for they are each of them so prejudicate against the other that their sitting here signifies nothing but their fostering their old venom and lying at catch to stop every advantage to bear down each other, though it be in the destruction of their country. For if the Round-Heads bring in a good bill the Old Cavalier opposes it, for no other reason but ...
— Andrew Marvell • Augustine Birrell
... conviction that unless we are careful, and take the "bull by the horns," and compel them to educate their children, and to put their habitations, tents, and vans under better sanitary arrangements, we shall be fostering seeds in these dregs of society that will one day put a stop to the work of civilisation, and bring to an end the advance in arts, science, laws, and commerce that have been making such rapid strides in this country ...
— Gipsy Life - being an account of our Gipsies and their children • George Smith
... Reginald had attended Charles, in the character of page, during his exile; and if he could not requite the devotion of the son, by absolutely reinstating the fallen fortunes of the father, the monarch could at least accord him the fostering influence of his favor and countenance; and bestow upon him certain lucrative situations in his household, as an earnest of his good-will. And thus much he did. Remarkable for his personal attractions in youth, it is not to be wondered at that ...
— Rookwood • William Harrison Ainsworth
... well through it; but I believe you are eager for the battle. Only let me say one thing, Theodora—be forbearing, or you will be fostering the enemy.' ...
— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge
... coat, vest, all to shelter Sidney; and he felt a kind of strange pleasure through the dark, even to hear Sidney's voice wail and moan. But that voice grew more languid and faint—it ceased—Sidney's weight hung heavy—heavier on the fostering arm. ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 2 • Edward Bulwer Lytton


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