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wardenry|ˈwɔːdənrɪ|
[f. warden n.1 + -ry.]
1. The office or position of warden.
1375Barbour Bruce viii. 362 He gaf vp thar his vardanry. c1420Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxx. 5036 Mony dedis worthi, Þat he did in his wardanry. 1434Proc. Privy Council (1835) IV. 270 Commissions to be maade to þerle of Sarum of boþe wardeneryes. 1546Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 28 The office of wardannre of the West Marchis. a1637Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. v. (1677) 279 The first had been lately dispatched from his office of Wardenry in the West Marches. 1828Scott Tales Grandf. Ser. i. II. 272 He..during his absence, committed the wardenry of the Scottish frontiers to a brave French knight.
2. The jurisdiction of, or district under the care of, a Warden of the Marches.
1462–3Script. tres (Surtees) App. p. cccxlvii, Every place within our wardenry. 1569Hunsdon in E. Lodge Illustr. Brit. Hist. (1791) II. 32 She must sende a good companie, more then either her Wardenries or the garrison of this towne will yelde. 1587Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 459/1 Quhilkis iustices..salbe ressauit..be þe wardanis within þe wardanries. 1590Hunsdon Let. to Marshal of Berwick in Archæologia XXX. 172 Least they, hearing of it, being within the wardonrie [printed wardourie] should fly upon it. 1805Scott Last Minstr. iv. xxiv, They may not tamely see, All through the Western Wardenry, Your law-contemning kinsmen ride.
3. The official residence of a warden. rare.
1859[J. Payn] Foster Brothers vi. 75 The Wardenry was a fine stone building occupying the entire side of a huge square court.
4. Guardianship. nonce-uses.
1903Hardy Dynasts i. vi. viii, He wills the wardenry of his affairs To his old friend. 1906Ibid. ii. i. iii, Still professing our safe wardenry, To fatten other kingdoms at our cost. |