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What is the noun for warded?

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ward
  1. Protection, defence.
    1. (obsolete) A guard or watchman; now replaced by warden.
    2. The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.).
    3. Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
    4. An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area, or a social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering, approaching and/or even from being able to locate said-protected premises
    5. (historical, Scots law) Land tenure through military service.
    6. (fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.
  2. A protected place.
    1. (archaic) An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
    2. A section or subdivision of a prison.
    3. An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
    4. (Britain) A division of a forest.
    5. (Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
    6. A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
  3. A person under guardianship.
    1. A minor looked after by a guardian.
    2. (obsolete) An underage orphan.
  4. An object used for guarding.
    1. The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Wilde, who represented the Walmgate ward on the City of York Council for 20 years, served as the city's Lord Mayor in 1995.”
      “His thoughts were always focussed on the person of the young ward, in whose company he rejoiced and in whose absence he was worried.”
      “He was to have the tutelage and ward of his children.”
wardmote
  1. (now historical) A meeting of the inhabitants of a ward.
  2. (historical) A court formerly held in each ward of London, England for trying defaults in matters relating to the watch, police, and the like.
  3. Examples:
    1. “When the play differs from Holinshed it differs also from the wardmote Book.”
      “Mr. Houston, the attorney who officiated at the wardmote, was not suffered to make his report of the election.”
      “Secondly, they are presidents of the wardmote and governors each of that ward whereby he was elected.”
ward
  1. (archaic or obsolete) A guard; a guardian or watchman.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Wilde, who represented the Walmgate ward on the City of York Council for 20 years, served as the city's Lord Mayor in 1995.”
      “His thoughts were always focussed on the person of the young ward, in whose company he rejoiced and in whose absence he was worried.”
      “He was to have the tutelage and ward of his children.”
wardmate
  1. A patient in the same ward of a hospital
wardsman
  1. A man who keeps ward; a guard.
wardship
  1. (chiefly law) The state of being a ward of someone
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  3. Examples:
    1. “However, he died a few months later, and the wardship of his three-year-old son, Roger, and his estate, escheated to the king.”
      “Nor shall we have wardship of that fee-farm, socage, or burgage, unless the fee-farm owes knight's service.”
      “This wardship phenomenon has the tendency to inhibit the State party's fulfilment of the obligations under the protocol.”
warding
  1. The act of one who wards.
wardsmen
  1. plural of wardsman
wardships
  1. plural of wardship
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He was to have all wardships and marriages, and the Dublin government was to have no power of imposing any cess or tax.”
      “They did include both regular income from the royal lands and judicial profits, as well as more occasional income derived from feudal levies, wardships, and ecclesiastical vacancies.”
      “William attempted to enforce the traditional rights of the Crown to approve marriages and wardships, but with little success.”
wardmates
  1. plural of wardmate
wardmotes
  1. plural of wardmote
wardings
  1. plural of warding
wards
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