Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community.
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."
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