fosterage's Usage Examples:

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

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

A child in fosterage was reared and educated suitably for the position it was destined to fill in life.

The cost of the fosterage of boys seems to have been borne by the mother's property, that of the daughters by the father's.

Synonyms:

fostering, acculturation, upbringing, socialization, enculturation, rearing, breeding, raising, socialisation, nurture, bringing up,

Antonyms:

unerect, inelegance, unfruitful, fall, decreasing,