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wardenship

noun as in guardianship

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Upon assuming the wardenship of Sing Sing, Lewis Lawes sat down with a stack of “musty reports and records that had not been looked at in decades.”

American citizens do not have to consider the problem of resigning to the keeping of a League of Nations a proud and long-cherished tradition of wardenship of the seas.

In this state Dr. Dee found it when he succeeded to the wardenship in 1595, and preferring it, notwithstanding its ruinous condition, to the house appointed for him elsewhere, took up his abode within it.

How wardenship could be of aid to us in our scientific work was a puzzle.

At length, the archbishop installed him in the wardenship of Manchester College; but though our adventurer now drew into harbour, it was his destiny to live in storms.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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