Definition of Godfathering

1. Verb. (present participle of godfather) ¹

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Definition of Godfathering

1. godfather [v] - See also: godfather

Lexicographical Neighbors of Godfathering

goddessship
goddessships
godding
goddist
gode-year
godelich
godemiche
godemiches
godet
godetia
godetias
godets
godfather
godfathered
godfatherhood
godfathering (current term)
godfatherless
godfatherlike
godfatherly
godfathers
godfearing
godforsaken
godforsakenly
godforsakenness
godheads
godhood
godhoods
godi
godild
godis

Literary usage of Godfathering

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

1. The Evolution of Worlds by Percival Lowell (1909)
"... as those above referred to; which, however, did not deter M. Blandet from giving it to the world nor De Lapparent from godfathering the conception. ..."

2. A Lawyer's Life on Two Continents by Wallis Nash (1919)
"... warm and appreciative letter giving his assent. I understood, I think, from Frank Darwin, that such action was as near "godfathering" as he ever went. ..."

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