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Custodianship

noun
1.
The position of custodian.






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"Custodianship" Quotes from Famous Books



... guess at what you intend doing. But it will be my privilege in court to testify concerning your conduct of custodianship—" ...
— The Women-Stealers of Thrayx • Fox B. Holden

... with which these treasures are surrounded, suggests the reflection that the old country has something to learn from the new in the matter of distinguished custodianship. We have no place of national pilgrimage in England that is so perfect a model as Washington's home at Mount Vernon. It is perhaps through lack of a figure of the Washington type that we have nothing to compare with it; for any parallel ...
— Roving East and Roving West • E.V. Lucas

... extreme peril. Hugh Peters, successor to Young, although he belonged to the iconoclastic faction, practically saved the books, but was unable to protect the unique collection of medals and coins. After a few months the custodianship was transferred to Ireton, and ultimately a permanent librarian was appointed in the person of Bulstrode Whitelocke, first commissioner of the Great Seal. He accepted the office from patriotism and reverence for the antiquities which ...
— Studies from Court and Cloister • J.M. Stone

... I can only guess at what you intend doing. But it will be my privilege in court to testify concerning your conduct of custodianship—" ...
— The Women-Stealers of Thrayx • Fox B. Holden

... to this connection with Chaucer in a short article in The Athenaeum. In this article Mr. Selby gave a few facts about him, gathered professedly from Dugdale, but omitted all mention of the curious connection Sir William de Beauchamp had with the property of the Earl of Pembroke, for his custodianship of which Chaucer was one of ...
— Chaucer's Official Life • James Root Hulbert



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