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Fostering   /fˈɑstərɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Foster  v. t.  (past & past part. fostered, pres. part. fostering)  
1.
To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up. "Some say that ravens foster forlorn children."
2.
To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.


Foster  v. i.  To be nourished or trained up together. (Obs.)





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"Fostering" Quotes from Famous Books



... Christ for ever to walk in His laws which He has set before us. From that heaven, ever since, hath God been sending rain and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness, for a witness of His love and fostering care; prospering us, whensoever we have kept His laws, above all other nations upon earth. Shall not that heaven witness against us? Into that heaven ascended Christ the Lord, that He might fill all things with His power and His rule, and ...
— Westminster Sermons - with a Preface • Charles Kingsley
... very humbling to human pride to be compared to chickens, as dependants on the fostering care of the hen, or as children relying upon a parent. In Bunyan's Last Sermon, are some striking allusions to the Christian's dependence upon his heavenly Father—'It is natural for a child, if he wants shoes, to tell his father; if he wants bread, ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... sprouting man. But this is absurdly to narrow ethics, whose true aim is to trace the laws involved in the construction of a good person. In such construction the supply of moral material, and the fostering of a wide diversity of vigorous powers, is as necessary as bringing these powers into proper working form. Richness of character is as important as correctness. The world's benefactors have often been one-sided and faulty men. None of us can be complete; and we had better not be much disturbed ...
— The Nature of Goodness • George Herbert Palmer
... fostering of the imagination—was it right? was it wise? Harvey worried himself with doubts insoluble. He had merely obeyed his own instincts. But perhaps he would be doing far better if he never allowed the child to hear a fairy-tale ...
— The Whirlpool • George Gissing
... shipping, American ports discriminated against British ships, and British ports discriminated against American ships. It was absolutely necessary to their existence as a nation that the United States should build up a merchant fleet. Under fostering laws, with the advantages of cheap labour and abundant timber, a wonderful clipper fleet had been constructed in Massachusetts and Maryland and Virginia ship-yards, consisting of swift sailing-vessels suitable ...
— Pioneers of the Pacific Coast - A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters • Agnes C. Laut


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