Inculcate vs Foster - What's the difference?
inculcate | foster |
To teach by repeated instruction.
To induce understanding or a particular sentiment in a person or persons.
Providing parental care to unrelated children.
Receiving such care
Related by such care
(countable, obsolete) A forester
(uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship
To nurture or bring up offspring; or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
To cultivate and grow something.
To nurse or cherish something.
(obsolete) To be nurtured or trained up together.
As a verb inculcate
is to teach by repeated instruction.As a proper noun foster is
, variant of forster.inculcate
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Verb
(inculcat)Quotations
{{timeline, 1900s=}} * 1932': Wordless conditioning ... cannot '''inculcate the more complex courses of behaviour. — ''Brave New World , Aldous Huxley * 1943': The right defense against false sentiments is to '''inculcate just sentiments. — ''The Abolition of Man , C. S. Lewisfoster
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Adjective
(-)Noun
Verb
(en verb)- Our company fosters an appreciation for the arts.
- (Spenser)