Noun: wardenship
| Singular | wardenship |
| Plural | wardenships |
Sample Sentences
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He was made one of the guardians of the young king James IV. but soon lost influence, being superseded by the Homes and Hepburns, and the wardenship of the marches was given to Alexander Home. [1771, Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1:]
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This, with other applications, led to his being presented with the wardenship of Manchester College, vacant by the removal of Dr William Chaderton to the see of Chester. [1872, John Roby, Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2):]
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The King granted a small part, namely, one virgate to "Herbert the Forester," before 1086, and this Herbert is generally supposed to have been the ancestor of those Lyndhursts who for so long held the wardenship of the Forest. [1914, Edward Hutton, England of My Heart--Spring:]
Nouns inflected like wardenship
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English wardenship. Equivalent to warden + -ship. See: Middle English Nouns '
wardenship'.