vbl. sb. [UP- 7.]
† 1. The action of building. Obs.–1
1484. Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1844), I. 41. Johne Gray, mason,… has takin upon him to be … diligent for the vpbringing of the said [St. Nicholas’] wark.
2. The action of bringing up young persons; the fact of being brought up while young, or the manner of this; early rearing and training. (Cf. BRINGING vbl. sb. 3.)
Rare in older Eng. use, but common in Scottish in the second half of the 16th c., and occasionally used by later Scottish writers. In general use only from 1870.
1520. Calisto & Melib., C iv b. They can not well labour in dede Be cause in youth of theyr ydyll vpbryngyng.
1568. Fulwell, Like will to Like, E ij. All licenciously was my vp bringing.
1584. Hudson, Du Bartas’ Judith, IV. (1611), 45. One of the Captains … discriving, to another, her stock and vpbringing.
a. 1670. Spalding, Troub. Chas. I. (1850), I. 139. The maisteris … of the said college, who cairfullie attendit thair callinges for vpbringing of the youth.
1678. R. Barclay, Apol. Quakers, V. § 23. 173. Men … have the Eye of the Soul darkned or dimmed through Evil up-bringing and Learning.
1822. Carlyle, Lett., in Froude, Life (1882), I. 171. What have I done to … reward those that had the trouble of my upbringing? Ibid. (1831), Sart. Res., II. ii. Let me not quarrel with my upbringing!
1864. Burton, Scot Abr., I. ii. 95. Preserving no traces of the influence of their … hard upbringing.
1873. Morley, Rousseau, II. 197. The theory and art of the upbringing of the young.
