rearing

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
noun helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
verb stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds

From Middle English rerynge (“raising”).

VI.--Management and Rearing of Children. — Emily Brontë, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson
His lights--I mean his rearing--often colored his decisions. — A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain
He has to contribute towards the rearing of bastards.” (Ibid., chap. — A history of economic doctrines : $b from the time of the physiocrats to the present day, Charles Gide

raising, nurture

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