fosterage

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I was always a dependent thing, wanting fosterage and support.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas

His son Brian had, in accordance with an old Irish custom, passed his boyhood in "fosterage" at the court of Callaghan, King of Cashel, in East Munster.

From Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times by Brooks, Elbridge Streeter

When Mardas saw Gharib his reason fled, and he said to him, "O my son, I am under thy protection: so deliver me in right of my fosterage of thee!"

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The terms of fosterage seem to vary in different islands.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 323, July 19, 1828 by Various

Rejoined Aslan, "O Commander of the Faithful, he is no father of mine, save by right of fosterage; my father was none other than Ala al-Din Abu al Shamat."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir