How To Use wardenship In A Sentence
- When the court moved to Oxford the king presented him with the wardenship of Merton College.
- All the world — meaning the ecclesiastical world as confined to the English church — knew that the wardenship of the Barchester Hospital was a snug sinecure, but no one had ever been blamed for accepting it. The Warden
- The income arising from the wardenship of the hospital was eight hundred, besides the value of the house. The Warden
- William Brooke died in March 1597, and Henry finally succeeded to the wardenship in September.
- Would he have to abdicate his precentorship, as he had his wardenship, and to give up chanting, as he had given up his twelve old bedesmen? Barchester Towers
- Under pressure of these attacks, Mr. Harding had resigned his wardenship, though strongly recommended to abstain from doing so both by his friends and by his lawyers. Barchester Towers
- Mr. Harding had resigned his wardenship, and had done so unconditionally, he had done so under circumstances which left the bishop no choice as to his reappointment, now that the affair of the hospital had been settled on a new basis by act of Parliament. Barchester Towers
- The wardenship has passed to yours truly jesse, thus I am the warden for our parish of Portland for the next year. So Many Goats & No Sheep
- Gaunt's appointment led to a breach, from which Northumberland emerged as sole warden in both marches in 1384, after which either he or his son usually held one of the wardenships.
- He, Mr. Quiverful, had not asked for the wardenship; he had not even accepted it till he had been assured that Mr. Harding had refused it. Barchester Towers
