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.
© Webster 1913.