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Meanings of fosterage in English
Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community.
Usage of fosterage in English
1
The terms of fosterage seem to vary in different islands.
2
At a year they left their own thresholds, and their fosterage ended only at marriage.
3
There still remains in the Islands, though it is passing fast away, the custom of fosterage.
4
The plan of adoption in Polynesia is matched to a degree by the fosterage common in Ireland in early days.
5
A great industrial system has been built up in this country under the fosterage of the Government, behind a wall of unproductive taxes.
6
So he went before the King and said, "If thou art willing, Cormac, I would gladly have one of thy sons in fosterage."
7
Fosterage is, I believe, sometimes performed upon more liberal terms.
8
"The bonds from fosterage are ofttimes stronger than blood ties."