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fosterage

[faw-ster-ij, fos-ter-]

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noun

the act of fostering or rearing another's child as one's own.
the condition of being a foster child.
an act of promoting or encouraging.
The board will undertake the fosterage of our new project.

fosterage

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First recorded in 1605–15; foster + -age

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Some groups may have practiced “fosterage”: the exchange of children to cement alliances.

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I was always a dependent thing, wanting fosterage and support.

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Connected apparently with the tribal sentiment were the strange customs of fosterage and gossipred.

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Conary would not condemn them to death, as the people begged him to do, but spared them for the sake of his kinship in fosterage.

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A child in fosterage was reared and educated suitably for the position it was destined to fill in life.

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