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The position of steward
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stewardship
Word definitions for stewardship in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Stewardship is a theological belief that humans are responsible for the world , and should take care of it. Many religions and denominations have various degrees of support for environmental stewardship . It can have political implications, such as in Christian ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The rank or office of a steward. 2 The act of caring for or improving with time.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stewardship \Stew"ard*ship\, n. The office of a steward. --Shak.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the position of steward
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"position or responsibilities of a steward," mid-15c., from steward (n.) + -ship . Specific ecclesiastical sense of "responsible use of resources in the service of God" is from 1899.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Baynton's long list of offices ranged from a keepership in Clarendon forest to the stewardship of Bristol. ▪ But the advance of the laboratory sciences depended essentially on stewardship of money: that is, on financial support. ...
Usage examples of stewardship.
Treatment of the land is fundamental to any government concerned with permaculture, that is, with stewardship of the biosphere for the good of future generations.
A new patriotism had flared on Telos, one based on commitment and stewardship of the land they cherished and had almost lost forever.
For his help in the thronal war, Springbuck had granted the scholar stewardship over an impoverished collection of city-states, the Highlands Province, in the northwestern corner of Coramonde.
I immediately dispatched a messenger, riding at full tilt, conveying to Zeno my hearty thanks and my auths of loyalty, and asking him to send legionaries to relieve me of my stewardship of Singidunum.
Bamboku, at one time a petty clerk at the Court, a post offering at best little advancement beyond a stewardship over the lower order of menials, had resigned from his position ten years before, bought a small shop in the market-place, and turned merchant, and through his former connections did business with the Court and the ladies.
The Bhutanese are so conscious of nature, so endowed with those transcendental sparks, as to have even based their constitution on ecological principles of stewardship.
Mr Grey was deterred, no doubt by certain high State purposes, from applying for the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, and thereby releasing himself from his seat in Parliament, and enabling himself to perform, with a clear conscience, duties in a distant part of the world which he did not feel to be compatible with that seat.
Between themselves they arrange that the wedding shall take place when next Pizarro makes his monthly visit to Seville to give an account of his stewardship, and the jailer admonishes the youthful pair to put money in their purses in a song of little distinction, but containing some delineative music in the orchestra suggesting the rolling and jingling of coins.
For instance, a circle may award the responsibility for certain sacred groves to its archdruids or great druid, and--unlike a normal grove--this stewardship changes hands as new druids assume the high ranks.
Oh, I've heard that you plan to set all of us lords in stewardship over the forest, decreeing which tree shall be touched, and which shall stand.
That Cup must have come to mean as much to him as Prince Charles Edward's sword hilt had come to mean to the earls of Kinloch, the affirmation that the personal stewardship of symbolic treasures should not be whisked away by ephemeral grey-faces, who wouldn't, down the decades, care a jot.
It was founded in 1923 and in less than half a century under the Park Service's stewardship lost seven species of mammal--the white-tailed jackrabbit, prairie dog, pronghorn antelope, flying squirrel, beaver, red fox, and spotted skunk.
Certain constants or principles seemed to have emerged over the centuries, as they ran through their experiments and paradigms, trying successively closer approximations of systems that promoted qualities like physical welfare, individual freedom, equality, stewardship of the land, guided markets, rule of law, compassion to all.
On the matters of the stewardships and the new immortality drugs he had bowed like the reed before the wind, not pushing his own viewpoint, merely ensuring that these matters were not finalized.
And when those tenancies began to pay rents, when there were sawmills and gristmills on the streams, when there were settlements and stores and taverns, when the handful of cows and pigs and horses had multiplied into fat herds of thriving stock under Jamie's careful stewardship .