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Definition of Breeding

Breeding

  1. of Breed
  2. The act or process of generating or bearing.
  3. The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.
  4. Nurture; education; formation of manners.
  5. Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society.
  6. Descent; pedigree; extraction.

Breeding Quotations

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark Twain

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
Thomas Carlyle

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
Carl Jung

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.
Dorothy Corkville Briggs
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Breeding Translations

breeding in Swedish is avel

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