bringing up

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bringing up - helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"

fosterage, fostering, nurture, rearing, upbringing, breeding, raising

acculturation, enculturation, socialisation, socialization - the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture; "the socialization of children to the norms of their culture"

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After he told him his misfortune, Mercury plunged into the stream, and, bringing up a golden axe, inquired if that were the one he had lost.

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Irwine is to be a witness himself, by and by, on her side, you know, to speak to her character and bringing up.

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All the while I was bringing up the long arrears of play which I had not enjoyed in the toil-years at Dayton, and was trying to make my Spanish reading serve in the sports that we had in the woods and by the river.

My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context

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