upbring
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
upbring (third-person singular simple present upbrings, present participle upbringing, simple past and past participle upbrought)
- (obsolete) To bring up.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- From mothers pap I taken was vnfit: / And streight deliuered to a Faery knight, / To be vpbrought in gentle thewes and martiall might.