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wardship


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wardship  \Ward"ship\,  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. 
  --Blackstone. 
 
  2.  The  state  of  begin  under  a  guardian;  pupilage. 
 
  It  was  the  wisest  act  .  .  .  in  my  wardship.  --B. 
  Jonson