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The act of generating or producing.
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The rearing of cattle or live stock of any kind, particularly by mingling or crossing one strain of a species of variety with another, with a view to improve the breed. See cross-breeding and in-and-in.
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Upbringing; nurture; education; instruction.
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Deportment of behavior in social life; manners, especially good manners: as, good breeding (politeness); a man of no breeding (that is, a very ill-bred man).
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In society his good breeding and vivacity made him always welcome. Macaulay, Dramatists of the Restoration.
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Descent; extraction.
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Synonyms Generation, production. Raising. Training, discipline.