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- noun Plural form of
fosterer .
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Examples
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If its decided the baby is not to return, then the fosterers become the adopters, saving the child from being moved around during its key developmental stages.
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As for afternoon nunchions, he has left them off since he was so woefully griped with the colic; his fosterers, sutlers, charcoal-men, and boiling cooks having been sadly mauled and peppered off in the northern countries.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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As for afternoon nunchions, he has left them off since he was so woefully griped with the colic; his fosterers, sutlers, charcoal-men, and boiling cooks having been sadly mauled and peppered off in the northern countries.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Their fosterers straightened them out fast and thoroughly.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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The trade naturally tends to ally itself with the other vicious interests that live by exploiting human weakness-the gamblers, the fosterers of prostitution, the keepers of vile "shows"; it has
Problems of Conduct Durant Drake
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It would mean dividing society into two very distinct classes -- the aristocracy of knowledge placed above the horny-handed lower orders -- the one doomed to serve the other; the one working with its hands to feed and clothe those who, profiting by their leisure, study how to govern their fosterers.
The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin
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Without the slightest patronage from the court or substantial encouragement from the fosterers of literary merit, these luckless personages are expected to attempt the same exertions and intense study, which is rewarded, in foreign countries, by the most flattering and judicious attention; as well as by a pension, to cheer the infirmities of old age.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832 Various
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Our daughters and their daughters are destined to become, in their turn, the tender fosterers of helpless infancy, the directors of developing childhood, and the companions of those citizens, who will occupy the legislative and executive offices of their country.
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On the completion of seven years Declan was taken from his parents and friends and fosterers to be sent to study as Colman had ordained.
Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore Anonymous
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On the completion of seven years Declan was taken from his parents and friends and fosterers to be sent to study as Colman had ordained.
Lives of SS Declan and Mochuda Anonymous 1914
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