guardianship
noun C2- The office or position of one acting as a guardian or conservator, especially in a legal capacity.
Plural guardianships
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“I say, sire, that the minister of police is greatly deceived or I am; and as it is impossible it can be the minister of police as he has the guardianship of the safety and honor of your majesty, it is probable that I am in error.
As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people’s happiness were in his guardianship!
I am joined with him in the guardianship of Miss Darcy.”
My sister, who is more than ten years my junior, was left to the guardianship of my mother’s nephew, Colonel Fitzwilliam, and myself.
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