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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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"Bringing up" Quotes from Famous Books



... having again pleased the Most High to put into our hands another miserable drove of Adam's degenerate seed, and our brethren by nature, I am bold (if I may not offend in it) to request the keeping and bringing up of one of the children." The following extract from a letter to Winthrop in 1645 is a curious mixture of religious bigotry and Yankee shrewdness: "A war with the Narragansetts is very considerable to this plantation, for I doubt whether it be not sin in us, having power in our hands, ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 • Various

... in that Passage, which Longinus has celebrated for its Sublimeness, and which Virgil and Ovid have copy'd after him, tells us, that the Giants threw Ossa upon Olympus, and Pelion upon Ossa. He adds an Epithet to Pelion ([Greek: einosiphullon]) which very much swells the Idea, by bringing up to the Readers Imagination all the Woods that grew upon it. There is further a great Beauty in his singling out by Name these three remarkable Mountains, so well known to the Greeks. This last is such a Beauty as the Scene of Milton's War could not possibly furnish him with. Claudian, in his Fragment ...
— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele

... a series of facts which deny the existence of this impulse—but they only seem to. Child-murder, the very frequent cruelty of mothers to their children, the opposition of very young women to bearing and bringing up children (cf. the educated among French and American women), and similar phenomena seem to speak against the maternal instinct. We must not forget, however, that all impulses come to an end where the opposed impulse becomes stronger, and that under given circumstances even ...
— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden

... coming upstairs," Eugene answered. "He is bringing up some firewood that that young ...
— Father Goriot • Honore de Balzac

... experience in the bringing up of young things of all sorts when in the Seonee district, and only after some time learnt the proper proportions of milk and water, and also that regularity in feeding was necessary—two-thirds water to one of milk for the first month; after ...
— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon • Robert A. Sterndale


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