Definition of Fathering

1. Verb. (present participle of father) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fathering

1. father [v] - See also: father

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fathering

father figures
father in law
father lasher
father lashers
father longlegs
father of chapel
father surrogate
fatherdom
fathered
fatherer
fatherers
fatherhood
fatherhoods
fathering (current term)
fatherland
fatherlands
fatherlasher
fatherlashers
fatherless
fatherlessness
fatherlike
fatherliness
fatherlinesses
fatherly
fathers
fathers-in-law
fathers-to-be
fathers of chapel

Literary usage of Fathering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Republic, If You Can Keep It: The Foundation of the American Presidency by Michael P. Riccards (1987)
"... 19 fathering THE PARTIES These lawyers, and men of learning, and moneyed men expect to be the managers of this Constitution, and get all the power and ..."

2. The Theological and Literary Journal (1850)
"... the interior form; and this is endowed with the power of (fathering around it the earthly elements necessary to the construction of tfie body of the ..."

3. Bench and Bar: Reminiscences of One of the Last of an Ancient Race by Benjamin Coulson Robinson (1891)
"... Remark—Pleasure of Literary Work—fathering Anecdotes on the. Home Circuit-—An Unwilling Lender— 'Owning'—Joe Miller—Sydney Smith--Vitality of Old ..."

4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1852)
"fathering multitude. It was this which compelled the pilgrim orde to winter amongst the Indian tribes at the close of the year 1846 ; it was not until the ..."

5. Defensive War Proved to be a Denial of Christianity and of the Government of by Henry Clarke Wright (1846)
"... iI Devout Pirates and Puritans fathering their bloody deeds upon God. Russell, the historian, says of the pirates of the ..."

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