Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BREED'ING
BREED'ING, n.
- The act of generating or producing.
- The raising of a breed or breeds; as, the farmer attends to the breeding of sheep.
- Nurture; education; instruction; formation of manners. She had her breeding at my father's charge. – Shak.
- By way of eminence, manners; knowledge of ceremony; deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life. Hence good breeding is politeness, or the qualifications which constitute genteel deportment. – Encyc.
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