Crossword clues for fosterage
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fosterage \Fos"ter*age\ (?; 48), n.
The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing.
--Sir W.
Raleigh.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "the rearing of another's child as one's own," from foster (v.) + -age.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An act of fostering another's child as if it were your own. 2 A condition of being the foster child. 3 promoting or encouragement given by act or word.
WordNet
n. encouragement; aiding the development of something [syn: fostering]
raising someone to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important" [syn: breeding, bringing up, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing]
Wikipedia
Fosterage, the practice of a family bringing up a child not their own, differs from adoption in that the child's parents, not the foster-parents, remain the acknowledged parents. In many modern western societies foster care can be organised by the state to care for children with troubled family backgrounds, usually on a temporary basis. In many pre-modern societies fosterage was a form of patronage, whereby influential families cemented political relationships by bringing up each other's children, similar to arranged marriages, also based on dynastic or alliance calculations.
This practice was once common in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland.
Usage examples of "fosterage".
They met only the once, yet both men spent the rest of their chiefships building bonds of fosterage between their clans that have stayed in place to this day.
Dhoone-hold, and both his legs were broken, and the fosterage had never gone through.
The other was where the natural parents paid for the fosterage of their child.
They had all been sent out of Osraige into fosterage until the time when the eldest of them would be of age and able to present his claim to his people.
So far as he knew, she was no more than what she seemed to be, a girl schooled in fosterage who had no notion of what the Grey Ladies were.
They came after the time when Moira had been sent off to fosterage, but she found nothing to fault with either of them.
In exchange for your fealty, I grant you fosterage until such time as I deem you ready to take your place in the world.
Damon tried to find families who had ties of blood or fosterage with people at Armida lands.
Kren felt little for their children given to the fosterage of a surparent.
Let me think on it: mayhap we can find him fosterage closer to us, so you can visit him more often.
They met only the once, yet both men spent the rest of their chiefships building bonds of fosterage between their clans that have stayed in place to this day.