Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or occupation of a forester.
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Examples
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I ask you and the goodwife to take Gudrid here in fostership.
Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America Maurice Hewlett 1892
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Tribute and bid me make test of the lessons of my fostership.
Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1874
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Brought up amid warlike scenes, where battles with the Danish invaders were of frequent occurrence, young Brian had now, at fifteen, completed the years of his fostership, and was a lad of strong and dauntless courage, cool and clear-headed, and a firm foe of Ireland's scourge -- the fierce "Dub-Gaile," or "Black Gentiles," as the Danes were called.
Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1874
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Erne Pillar, where you will be put in fostership with Orme. "
Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America Maurice Hewlett 1892
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