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Fostering

noun

Encouragement; aiding the development of something. Synonym: fosterage.

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

Foster

verb

(past & past part. fostered, pres. part. fostering)

Promote the growth of. Synonym: further.

Bring up under fosterage; of children.

Help develop, help grow. Synonym: nurture.

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"Fostering" Quotes from Famous Books

... other. Pardon me, my amiable friend, if I take the liberty to say, that my St. Julian was more suspicious than he needed to have been, when he supposed that Naples could deprive me of the simplicity and innocence that grew up in my breast under his fostering ...

— Italian Letters, Vols. I and II • William Godwin

... general, and since of late we have perceived disunion among friends to be not nearly so ripe as in the Bible it is plainly commanded to be, we the members of this club have investigated the means of producing, fostering, and invigorating strife of all kinds, whereby the society of man will be profited much. For in a few hours we can by the means we have discovered create so beautiful a dissension between two who have lately been friends, that they shall never speak ...

— Samuel Butler's Cambridge Pieces • Samuel Butler

... parent, then, to inculcate this quasi instinct against sex abuse in any form is to give the child the best armor he could possibly have; and if this could be done for generations, the instinct would not need such careful fostering, as it would be born more or less ...

— The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young • Margaret Warner Morley

... political and social causes likely to generate doubt, which were then acting. (pp. 97, 98.) the unbelief was confined to Italy.—Reasons why so vast a movement as the Reformation passed without fostering unbelief. (p. 99.) ...

— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar

... which he pointed out that after the promulgation of the laws concerning the establishment of Crown schools and the abolition of the Kahals—laws-which were aimed at "the weakening of the influence of the Talmud" and the destruction of all institutions "fostering the separate individuality of the Jews"—the turn had come for carrying into effect, by means of the proposed classification, the measures directed towards "the transfer of the Jews to useful labor." Of the regulations tending to affect the Jews "culturally" the circular emphasizes the ...

— History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II • S.M. Dubnow

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