Definition of Breeding

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Breeding

of Breed

The act or process of generating or bearing.

The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.

Nurture; education; formation of manners.

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.

Descent; pedigree; extraction.

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Breeding Quotations

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

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
Carl Jung

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

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Joseph Addison

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

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Aristophanes

The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber.
Chris LeDoux

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
James Thurber

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
Lord Chesterfield

Breeding Translations

breeding in Swedish is avel

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