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Wardship   Listen
noun
Wardship  n.  
1.
The office of a ward or keeper; care and protection of a ward; guardianship; right of guardianship. "Wardship is incident to tenure in socage."
2.
The state of begin under a guardian; pupilage. "It was the wisest act... in my wardship."





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"Wardship" Quotes from Famous Books



... years, by the influence of the popular party, was placed in that high and awful rank in which he now is. The fortunes of his country, we had almost said, the fates of the world, were placed in his wardship—we sink in prostration before the inscrutable dispensations of Providence, when we reflect in whose wardship the fates of the world ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various


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