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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

... condescending; to his inferiors, kind; and to the dear object of his affections, exemplarily tender; correct throughout, vice shuddered in his presence, and virtue always felt his fostering hand; the purity of his private character gave effulgence to his ...

— From Farm House to the White House • William M. Thayer

... has done more to promote its health, cleanliness, and consequent happiness, than any other single citizen of Chicago. If the sanitary canal was not his child, it was pushed to completion through the fostering hand of his adoption. The Lincoln Park Sanitarium for poor children, and other similar agencies exploited by the Daily News, were born of his suggestions and were nurtured by his personal supervision. It is impossible, and would be out of place here, to ...

— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson

... a manner to carry a belief that the harsh and cruel enactments which deprive colored citizens of the North of the privileges they claim in Southern States under the Constitution, it may be well for our people to consider that such enactments are not confined to the States fostering the institution of slavery, but exist and are enforced in some States making peculiar claim to love for freedom and the rights of man. The State of Illinois has a code of laws against free colored persons, citizens of other States, as severe as those of ...

— A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention • Lucius Eugene Chittenden

... you know," said Miss Dawkins; "so opposed to the fostering principles of creation. Don't you think ...

— An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids • Anthony Trollope

... poverty of tradition which allows these races neither to maintain a consciousness of their earlier fortunes for any appreciable period nor to fortify and increase their stock of intelligence either through the acquisitions of individual prominent minds or through the adoption and fostering of any stimulus. Here, if we are not entirely mistaken, is the basis of the deepest-seated differences between races. The opposition of historic and non-historic races seems to border closely ...

— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

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