Fostering
['fɔstɚ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foster
Checker: Rene
Examples
- She covered her with noiseless kisses; she murmured love over her, like a cushat fostering its young. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- No art can make it: it must spring Where elements are fostering. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For a time, I thought that, by watching a complying moment, fostering the still warm ashes, I might relume in her the flame of love. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Part icular attention was paid to the trades, the mechanic arts, and the fostering of inventions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I see the difficulty, I replied; yet the fostering of such a belief will make them care more for the city and for one another. Plato. The Republic.
- But the plant needs fostering, and I, the gardener, alas! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- No one doubts, theoretically, the importance of fostering in school good habits of thinking. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Editor: Robert