upbring

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English

Etymology

From Middle English upbringen, equivalent to up- +‎ bring. Cognate with Saterland Frisian apbrange, West Frisian opbringe, Dutch opbrengen, German Low German upbrengen, German aufbringen, Danish opbringe, Swedish uppbringa.

Verb

upbring (third-person singular simple present upbrings, present participle upbringing, simple past and past participle upbrought)

  1. (obsolete) To bring up.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:
      From mothers pap I taken was vnfit: / And streight deliuered to a Faery knight, / To be vpbrought in gentle thewes and martiall might.

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