Definitions for fosterage

fosterage fos·ter·age

Spelling: [faw-ster-ij, fos-ter-]
IPA: /ˈfɔ stər ɪdʒ, ˈfɒs tər-/

Fosterage is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 551 anagrams from letters in fosterage (aeefgorst).

Definitions for fosterage

noun

  1. the act of fostering or rearing another's child as one's own.
  2. the condition of being a foster child.
  3. an act of promoting or encouraging:

Origin of fosterage

First recorded in 1605-15; foster + -age

Examples for fosterage

There still remains in the Hebrides, though it is passing fast away, the custom of fosterage.

The ties created by fosterage were nearly as close and as binding on children as those of blood.

He has come to claim, as gossip-law allows, the fosterage of MacWilliam's son.

There still remains in the Islands, though it is passing fast away, the custom of fosterage.

fosterage is, I believe, sometimes performed upon more liberal terms.

fosterage, we are told, was of two sorts, for affection and compensation.

fosterage might be undertaken out of affection or for payment.

In order to remedy this marriage, fosterage, gossipred, and even concubinage with the Irish was declared high treason.

There was fosterage for affection, for payment and for a literary education.

He was in fosterage with Bishop Patrec, the saint in the Southreys.

Word Value for fosterage
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