Definition of "fosterer" [fos•ter•er]

• One who fosters; one who is somehow designated to care for and nurture someone. (noun)

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• "As far as I can see the council - and hence the fosterer - cannot CAUSE the child to be brought up in a different religious persuasion."
• "Through this marriage Joseph was not a mere fosterer, nor was he an adoptive father of Jesus."
• "Then they fared to hunt for him, and parted themselves into companies, and Thorkell fosterer went along the seashore to search."