Word Meanings - WARDSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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 . . .

Additional info about word: WARDSHIP

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WARDSHIP)

• Pupilage
• Minority
• discipleship
• wardship
• tutelage
• dependence
• government

Related words: (words related to WARDSHIP)

• WARDSHIP
  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 . . .
• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• GOVERNMENT
  The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. (more info) 1. The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
• DISCIPLESHIP
  The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts. Jer. Taylor.
• MINORITY
  1. The state of being a minor, or under age. 2. State of being less or small. Sir T. Browne. 3. The smaller number; -- opposed to Ant: majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority.
• TUTELAGE
  1. The act of guarding or protecting; guardianship; protection; as, the king's right of seigniory and tutelage. The childhood of the European nations was passed under the tutelage of the clergy. Macaulay. 2. The state of being under a guardian;
• DEPENDENCE
  1. The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support. 2. The state of being influenced and determined by something; subjection . The cause of effects, and the dependence of one thing upon
• PUPILAGE
  The state of being a pupil. As sons of kings, loving in pupilage, Have turned to tyrants when they came to power. Tennyson.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• BY-DEPENDENCE
  An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory. Shak.
• STEWARDSHIP
  The office of a steward. Shak.
• INDEPENDENCE
  1. The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self- subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference. Let fortune do her worst, . . . as
• INTERDEPENDENCE
  Mutual dependence. "The interdependence of virtue and knowledge." M. Arnold.
• COWARDSHIP
  Cowardice. Shak.
• INDEPENDENCE DAY
  In the United States, a holiday, the 4th of July, commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on that day in 1776.
• SELF-GOVERNMENT
  1. The act of governing one's self, or the state of being governed by one's self; self-control; self-command. 2. Hence, government of a community, state, or nation by the joint action of the mass of people constituting such a civil body; also,