Raising someone to be an accepted member of the community

Usage examples of upbringing.

Solitude had killed every power in her save vanity, and the form her vanity took was peculiarly irritating to her husband, and in a lesser degree to her daughter, for neither the Elder nor Loo would have founded self-esteem on adventitious advantages of upbringing.

But an un-Egyptian and unorthodox upbringing had not inculcated in Auletes a true respect for the native Egyptian priests who administered the religion of that strange country, a strip no more than two or three miles wide that followed the course of the river Nilus all the way from the Delta to the islands of the First Cataract and beyond to the border of Nubia.

Humans had to be taught the kind of spatial sense the Crucians got gratis from their upbringing and from their chromosomes.

A theory circulated that Henry, having lost confidence in the beneficiaries of Montmirail, who had proved ungrateful for his paternal liberality, weighed the possibility of repudiating that Poitevin brood of eaglets, retrieving his misprized gifts, and setting up the child John, who had shared neither the dispositions of Montmirail nor the unfilial upbringing of his elder brothers, as the chief heir and object of his bounty.

SEVERAL times in the course of this narrative I have hinted at an idea corresponding to the above French heading, and now feel it incumbent upon me to devote a whole chapter to that idea, which was one of the most ruinous, lying notions which ever became engrafted upon my life by my upbringing and social milieu.

Your upbringing in England has burdened your conscience with restrictions appropriate to democratic mediocrity.

It took a long time for such attitudes to change, but already by the middle decades of the nineteenth century one can discern a new veneration of childhood on the part of those memoirists and writers who recalled their upbringing after 1812.

All in all, I loved Lucius Claudius dearly, but he was a creature of his patrician upbringing, trained from birth never to feel empathy for a slave, and he simply could not equate the fate of a man like Motho with that of a man like Lucullus.

His survival instincts urged him to run, but his paisa upbringing held him back.

So the opportunity and Peewee both slid past while I was torn between common sense and upbringing.

In winter when the rivers were frozen over and the raftsmen were laid off, he sat quietly at home in Troyl, where only raftsmen, longshoremen, and wharf hands lived, and supervised the upbringing of his daughter Agnes, who seemed to take after her father, for when she was not under the bed she was in the clothes cupboard, and when there were visitors, she was under the table with her rag dolls.

He had left under a cloud and with a reputation for genuine toughness and rowdyism that has seen few parallels even in the ungentle district of his birth and upbringing.

Jamaica, a record of crime and a sense that his Christian upbringing was not enough to shield him from the violence, poverty and racial bias of south London.

He doubtless has other wives, as well, but now he wishes to have for his premier wife and Ilkhatun a woman of pure Mongol blood and upbringing.

To a proud woman of her upbringing the imputation of setting her cap at the Nonesuch was so abhorrent that she was nauseated every time she thought of it.