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stewardship|ˈstjuːədʃɪp|
[f. steward n. + -ship.]
1. The office of steward; also fig.
1465Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 178 Item, the bayly off Hadley owyth hym ffor hys ffe off the stewardsheppe off the same town. 1491Act 7 Hen. VII, c. 20 §8 Any Stiward⁓shippes offices fees wages or annuities..to him graunted. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, iii. iii. 78 Shew vs the Hand of God, That hath dismiss'd vs from our Stewardship. 1601[? Marston] Jack Drums Entert. i. A 4 b, No, I do loue my Girles should wish me liue, Which fewe do wish that haue a greedy Syre: But still expect and gape with hungry lip, When heele giue vp his gowtie stewardship. 1709Bp. Atterbury Serm. Sons Clergy Ded., There are, I believe, Two hundred Persons now living, who have gone before You in the Stewardship. 1839John Bull 11 Aug. 382/2 A new writ was..issued for Perth, in the room of Mr. Kinnaird, who vacated by accepting a stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds. 1862Goulburn Pers. Relig. i. iv. (1871) 41 Each one of us has a stewardship somewhere in the great social system. 1886Manch. Exam. 1 Oct. 5/3 At a meeting of the Jockey Club..H. W. Fitzwilliam was appointed as successor in the stewardship to the Marquis of Londonderry. 1907Outlook 19 Jan. 91/1 The origin and development of the Stewardship of England.
2. a. Conduct of the office of steward; administration, management, control.
1526Tindale Luke xvi. 2 Geve a comptes off thy steward⁓shippe. 1684Norris Poems etc. 46 Among all the Talents which are committed to our Stewardship, Time..is the most precious. 1791Cowper Iliad xix. 52 Those who held In stewardship the food. 1915Morn. Post 22 Dec. 4/4 We want further such a stewardship of the economic resources of the country as will enable us to lift and to carry the financial burden.
b. Eccl. The responsible use of resources, esp. money, time, and talents, in the service of God; spec. the organized pledging of specific amounts of money etc. to be given regularly to the Church. Also attrib.
1899C. M. Sheldon (title) His brother's keeper; or, Christian stewardship. 1931D. W. P. Strang Studies in Christian Stewardship i. 4 The philosophy of Stewardship can claim no less an authorship than that of our Lord Himself. 1938H. Gerlinger Money Raising vi. 98 This lack of development of a social consciousness on the part of students is clearly due to the fact that practically no systematic effort is made to implant the idea of stewardship in undergraduates. 1950Christian Cent. 22 Nov. 1392/2 There is only one legitimate answer to the financial problem..to..teach our people to practice Christian stewardship. 1951National Council Outlook May 12/1 The delegates asked for consolidation of stewardship and fund-raising efforts in the Council. 1959Christian Stewardship of Money i. 5 The movement..has broadened out into an attempt to recover and to teach the principles of the right Christian attitude towards the use of money. For want of a less archaic word this attitude is called ‘Stewardship’. 1980Oxf. Diocesan Mag. May 15/3 The book deals with man's attitude to the natural world in general and his Christian stewardship in relation to its resources.
attrib.1931D. W. P. Strang Studies in Christian Stewardship i. 5 The Stewardship movement has..developed momentum mainly in the New World. 1942Christian Cent. 1 July 829/1 (heading) United stewardship campaign might go even further. 1962P. Ferris Church of England ix. 175 Stewardship advisers..were soon appointed in most dioceses. 1979Oxf. Diocesan Mag. Dec. 9/2 Stewardship campaigns are essentially teaching missions. Ibid. 10/1 Pastoral reorganisation and the stewardship movement have worked together to foster a sense of responsibility in parishes.
†3. Used for stewartry 1. Obs.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 97 Scotland is divided into 31 shires and two stewardships. |