Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A nurse; one who feeds and nourishes in the place of a, parent; hence, one who or that which promotes or sustains: as, a fosterer of rebellion; intemperance is a fosterer of crime.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, fosters.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
fosters ; one who is somehow designated to care for and nurture someone.
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Examples
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Through this marriage Joseph was not a mere fosterer, nor was he an adoptive father of Jesus.
APPRECIATING SAINT JOSEPH Esther G. 2009
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They put him to death at once among the rocks, and it is the story of some men that Thorkell fosterer slew him, because there were no other men who would do it.
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Then they fared to hunt for him, and parted themselves into companies, and Thorkell fosterer went along the seashore to search.
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As far as I can see the council - and hence the fosterer - cannot CAUSE the child to be brought up in a different religious persuasion.
The Christian Institute and the case of the "sacked" foster carer 2009
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The fosterer worked very hard with her, but two weeks later, she was still scared.
not-yet-adopted kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Thing #3: I need a puppy fosterer, and I need it now.
August 7th, 2005 ostenferret 2005
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In Mull, the father sends with his child a certain number of cows, to which the same number is added by the fosterer.
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The fosterer, if he gives four cows, receives likewise four, and has, while the child continues with him, grass for eight without rent, with half the calves, and all the milk, for which he pays only four cows when he dismisses his Dalt, for that is the name for
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I think myself, she might possibly have been a hanger-on, nurse, fosterer, or washerwoman, in some Irish family: she spoke a smothered tongue, curiously overlaid with mincing cockney inflections.
Villette 2003
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Children continue with the fosterer perhaps six years, and cannot, where this is the practice, be considered as burdensome.
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