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BREE'DING, ppr. Bearing and nourishing, as a fetus engendering producing educating.

BREE'DING, n. The act of generating or of producing.

1. The raising of a breed or breeds as, the farmer attends to the breeding of sheep.
2. Nurture education instruction formation of manners.

She had her breeding at my father's charge.

3. 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.
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Entry for 'Breeding'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​b/breeding.html.
 
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