Fosterage

Quick meaning: Fosterage is a noun meaning The act of fostering another's child as if it were one's own.

Meaning

The act of fostering another's child as if it were one's own.

More Meanings

1. The act of caring for another human being or animal.
2. The condition of being the foster child.
3. The act of promoting or encouraging something.

Example Sentences

In those animals in which the system of fosterage and protection has not been developed a great number of fertilized ova are produced, only a few of which come to maturity.

There still remains in the Islands, though it is passing fast away, the custom of fosterage. A Laird, a man of wealth and eminence, sends his child, either male or female, to a tacksman, or tenant, to be fostered.

A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character, that I cannot overcome an intense distaste to the usual brutality exercised on board ship […]

He had not gone one step nearer the lives he had sought to approach nor bridged the restless shame and rancour that had divided him from mother and brother and sister. He felt that he was hardly of the one blood with them but stood to them rather in the mystical kinship of fosterage, fosterchild and fosterbrother.

Word Forms

• fosterages

Synonyms for fosterage

Depending on context, synonyms include nurture, nurturing, fostering, rearing, raising, upbringing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fostering, upbringing, rearing, nurture, raising, breeding.

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