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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

upbring en · VERB

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.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) To bring up.
    • From mothers pap I taken was vnfit: / And streight deliuered to a Faery knight, / To be vpbrought in gentle thewes and martiall might. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
upbrought Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
upbrought Tense=Past lexicographic
upbringing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
upbrings Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

upbringing