A fostered child; a child raised by foster parents rather than biological parents.
From foster plus the suffix -ite, denoting a person associated with something. Older or literary term for what we now call foster children.
The term fosterite appears in Victorian literature—Charles Dickens wrote sympathetically about fosterites as characters who had to navigate complex family loyalties!
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