Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state of being in the charge of a guardian.
- noun Custody; guardianship.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office of a ward or guardian; guardianship; care and protection of a ward; right of guardianship; hence, the feudal tenure by which the lord claimed the custody of the body and custody and profits of the lands of the infant heir of his deceased tenant.
- noun The state or condition of a ward; pupilage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office of a ward or keeper; care and protection of a ward; guardianship; right of guardianship.
- noun The state of begin under a guardian; pupilage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being a
ward of someone
Etymologies
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Examples
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I begged the King to have the truth declared, whether the wardship were his or mine.
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This decadence of purpose is not unnatural; a wardship is a duty, and should not be a continuous necessity, its greatest blessing a consciousness that its ideals and purposes have been assimilated by its wards, and lifted higher in humanity's scale.
Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century Mifflin Wistar Gibbs 1885
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"wardship," &c. The above may seem a great undertaking for vacant hours at college, but will not appear to any of Mr. Smith's friends to have been such to him, who read as rapidly, as he attended closely to, and tenaciously retained what he had read.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various
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"pleaded nonage," "wardship," "pupillage," &c., seem to smack too much of legal technology to countenance the supposition of poetic license.
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She would be in a minority, but under the wardship of her mother and yourself as Lord Protector.
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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A minor could succeed to a title but could not administer the associated estates, especially if they were held as "knight-service," until he or she came of age. 28 Hence, the practice of wardship whereby an underage heir became the ward of the crown with their estates reverting to the crown during the heir's minority.
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She would be in a minority, but under the wardship of her mother and yourself as Lord Protector.
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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For how this all related to wardship, see Elton, Reform, p. 147 back
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“I am giving your daughter in wardship to my dearly loved half brothers, Edmund and Jasper Tudor,” the king says to my mother.
The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010
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She would be in a minority, but under the wardship of her mother and yourself as Lord Protector.
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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