bringing up

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"Back then, we really did have to research what to eat. "We started looking at Eastern and Indian food and were really expanding our cultural horizons from our bringing-up in the North East.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2017

Virginian by birth she is Middle-Western by adoption and bringing-up.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Mrs. Lacey detects a secret sarcasm in the phrase about the bringing-up.

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver

In another play, Act I ended with the failure of a well-intentioned friend to take a child from her father for her better bringing-up.

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce

Stern and full of earnestness, his adoptive parents gave themselves up to their work, the religious education of the parishioners and the careful bringing-up of their son.

From A Gallant Grenadier A Tale of the Crimean War by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)